The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 74

‘Take this one,’ she said to the slave, ‘and carry it back to your mistress, but tell her to keep the corn, as the pumpkin is a gift.’

Who acts: you, few, pumpkin · What happens: take, say, carry, tell, keep, be · To what, where: one, slave, few, corn · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, few, pumpkin), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 slave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slave	det
11	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slave	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carry	cc
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 carry	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 mistress	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mistress	nmod:poss
20	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corn	det
28	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gift	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	35 gift	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pumpkin	det
32	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gift	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 gift	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 gift	det
35	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this one			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	few		the slave and ‘		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to slave=Recipient
3	carry	infinitive	few not said here	slave			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		few		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the corn			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme
6	is	present	the pumpkin			as a gift	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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