The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 101

‘Take the purse of gold,’ said the girl to the shoemaker, ‘I have no need of it, and it will better thee.’

Who acts: girl, I · What happens: take, say, have, need · To what, where: purse, need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, I), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purse	det
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purse	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 shoemaker	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shoemaker	det
14	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 need	det
20	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 need	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 better	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 better	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 better	expl
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 better	aux
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 have	advcl
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 better	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		the purse of gold		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the girl		to the shoemaker	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to shoemaker=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	no need of need		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	need			need		nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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