The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 72

Unluckily someone else thought so too, and this was her brother’s wife, who had heard all about the pumpkin tree, and sent her slave with a handful of grain to buy her a pumpkin.

Who acts: someone, this, wife · What happens: think, be, hear, send, buy · To what, where: pumpkin tree, slave, pumpkin, many

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, this, wife), 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	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 thought	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 too	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wife	cc
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 brother	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brother	cop
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 brother	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 wife	acl:relcl
19	all	all	ADV	_	23 tree	advmod
20	about	about	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sent	cc
26	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 slave	nmod:poss
28	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 handful	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 handful	det
31	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 grain	case
33	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 handful	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 buy	mark
35	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sent	advcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 buy	iobj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pumpkin	det
38	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 buy	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	someone			unluckily property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	this			's many's brother	tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	many's brother's wife	the pumpkin tree			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	send	past	someone not said here	many's slave		with a handful of grain	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
5	buy	to-infinitive	someone not said here	a pumpkin	many		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary pumpkin=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 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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