The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 79

‘Oh,’ says she to him, ‘would you put your hand out at the window and cut me off a sprig or two of honeysuckle?’

Who acts: you · What happens: say, put out, cut off · To what, where: woman, folk, hand, window, me · 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 (you), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	parataxis
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
21	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 cut	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sprig	det
25	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 two	cc
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sprig	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 honeysuckle	case
29	honeysuckle	honeysuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprig	nmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		woman	folk		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to he=Recipient
2	put out	would	you	your hand		the window	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at window=Destination
3	cut off	infinitive	you not said here	me			tree rules

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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