The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 37

‘We have four alder bushes and sixteen tufts of grass,’ rejoined Maie.

Who acts: We · What happens: have, rejoin · To what, where: four alder bushes, Maie

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rejoined	ccomp
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bushes	nummod
5	alder	alder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bushes	compound
6	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tufts	cc
8	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 tufts	nummod
9	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bushes	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tufts	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
14	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 rejoined	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 rejoined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	four alder bushes and sixteen tufts of grass					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Patient
2	rejoin	past		Maie					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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