The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 23
‘Get one, then,’ said her husband; and so they hired a girl.
Who acts: husband, quantities · What happens: get, say, hire · To what, where: one, girl · 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 (husband, quantities), 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 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Get | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Get | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hired | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 hired | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hired | nsubj |
| 15 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hired | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | infinitive | one | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hire | past | quantities = quantity | a girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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