The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 19

‘Yes, indeed we have,’ said both the girls, ‘but tell us...’ and they wanted to ask who the old man was, but were afraid to.

Who acts: we, girls, old man · What happens: have, say, tell, want, ask, be · To what, where: girls, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, girls, old man), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 girls	cc:preconj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 girls	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	...	...	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wanted	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	24 ask	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 who	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 who	cop
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 afraid	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 afraid	cc
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 afraid	cop
33	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	33 afraid	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	we			indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the girls			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
4	want	past	girls = girl				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	girls = girl not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	the old man				tree rules
7	is	past				afraid property	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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