The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 63

‘Here, my poor wife,’ said he, ‘is a little hand-reel, with gold thread that has no end, and the half of our marriage ring.

Who acts: poor wife, prince, gold thread · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: little hand reel, end · 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 (poor wife, prince, gold thread), 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 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reel	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 reel	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reel	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reel	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reel	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hand	punct
18	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thread	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 thread	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thread	compound
22	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reel	appos
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thread	acl:relcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ring	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ring	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 half	det
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	34 ring	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 ring	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ring	nmod:poss
33	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ring	compound
34	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my poor wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	prince	a little hand reel	tree rules
3	have	present	gold thread	no end	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=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 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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