The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 60

But before he started he gave her a comb, and told her that whenever she used it, pearls and diamonds would fall from her hair.

Who acts: sun, joy, pearls · What happens: start, give, tell, use, fall · To what, where: comb, joy, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, joy, pearls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 started	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 comb	det
9	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 used	mark
15	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 used	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	nsubj
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fall	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
20	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fall	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 diamonds	cc
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pearls	conj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fall	aux
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 hair	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fall	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	sun					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	give	past	sun	a comb	joy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient comb=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	sun not said here		joy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	use	past	joy	comb			whenever property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	fall	would	pearls and diamonds			joy's hair		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hair=Initial_Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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