The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 65

“Give me the bridge,” said she, “for I am going to bury it here.

Who acts: hole · What happens: give, say, go, bury · To what, where: bridge, hole, spade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bury	mark
17	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bury	obj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bury	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive		the bridge	hole		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bridge=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	hole				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	hole				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bury in a quote	to-infinitive	hole not said here	spade		here	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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