The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 70

Then she slipped her hand under her carpet and produced a stick to which she said something.

Who acts: Jamila · What happens: slip, produce, say · To what, where: hand, carpet, stick, something · 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 (Jamila), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 slipped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 carpet	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 carpet	nmod:poss
8	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 produced	cc
10	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slipped	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stick	det
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 produced	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 said	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stick	acl:relcl
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	slip	past	Jamila	Jamila's hand		Jamila's carpet	then	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	produce	past	Jamila not said here	a stick				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Jamila	something	a stick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to which=Recipient

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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