The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 67

“Dear Signy,” said Asmund, “do try to get hold of that piece of brocade and make the clothes yourself, for really we shall have no rest day or night with such a noise.”

Who acts: Dear Signy, we · What happens: say, try, get, make, have, hold · To what, where: hold, clothes, piece · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear Signy, we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Signy	amod
3	Signy	Signy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Signy	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Signy	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 piece	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 brocade	case
19	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clothes	det
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 make	obj
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 make	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 have	mark
27	really	really	ADV	_	30 have	advmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 day	det
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 day	compound
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 night	cc
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 day	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 noise	case
37	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 noise	det:predet
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 noise	det
39	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dear Signy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try in a quote	infinitive · do-support					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		hold of that piece of brocade			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
4	make in a quote	infinitive		the clothes		yourself obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product
5	have in a quote	shall	we		day	with such noise	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	hold in a quote			that piece of brocade			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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