The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 79

Now the girl did not tell her sisters about the fish, but every day she saved half of her rice to give him, and called him softly in a little song she had made for herself.

Who acts: girl · What happens: not tell, save, give, call, make · To what, where: sisters, half, fish, little song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 girl	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sisters	nmod:poss
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	iobj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 fish	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saved	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 saved	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saved	obl:unmarked
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saved	nsubj
17	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	parataxis
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 saved	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 rice	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 rice	nmod:poss
21	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 half	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saved	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saved	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obj
29	softly	softly	ADV	_	27 called	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 song	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 song	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 song	amod
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 song	acl:relcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 herself	case
38	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 made	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the girl		girl's sisters			about the fish	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient about fish=Topic
2	save	past	girl	half of girl's rice			day		tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	girl not said here		fish				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	call	past	girl not said here		fish	a little song		softly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	make	past · perfect	girl	a little song not said here				for girl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent song=Product for herself=Asset

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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