The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 47

She was delighted with the beautiful deer, and cried to her nurse: “Catch it! if you will I will give you this necklace, every pearl of which is worth a kingdom.”

Who acts: girl, nurse · What happens: be, cry, catch, give · To what, where: nurse, heart, necklace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 deer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deer	amod
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 nurse	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nurse	nmod:poss
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Catch	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Catch	punct
16	Catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Catch	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Catch	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 give	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Catch	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 necklace	det
27	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pearl	punct
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 pearl	det
30	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Catch	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 worth	obl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 worth	cop
34	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pearl	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 kingdom	det
36	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worth	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl			with the beautiful deer; delighted property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past			girl's nurse		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient
3	catch in a quote	infinitive		heart			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	girl's nurse = nurse	this necklace	girl's nurse = nurse		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient necklace=Theme
5	is in a quote	present				of every pearl; worth property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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