The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 49

‘You would like to sit down and rest, granny?’ asked Tephany, pushing aside her bundle.

Who acts: You, Tephany · What happens: like, sit down, rest, ask, push · To what, where: bundle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Tephany), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2873): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rest	cc
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 granny	punct
11	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asked	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pushing	punct
17	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 asked	advcl
18	aside	aside	ADV	_	17 pushing	advmod
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bundle	nmod:poss
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pushing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	would	You		granny vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	infinitive	You not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Tephany			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	push	gerund	Tephany not said here	Tephany's bundle	aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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