The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 11

‘We shall find some means,’ said his wife; and the cow found the means herself.

Who acts: We, some, cow, the · What happens: find, mean, say · To what, where: wife, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, some, cow, the), 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	_	4 find	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cow	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 means	nsubj
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 found	ccomp
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 means	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	shall	We		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	some		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		Matte's wife	tree rules
4	find	past	the cow		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	mean	present	the	cow	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic

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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