The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 12

But the story never says who had stolen them, nor what the coarse comb had to do with it.

Who acts: story, coarse comb · What happens: not say, steal, have, do · To what, where: spells · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, coarse comb), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 says	advmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stolen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stolen	aux
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 says	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stolen	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stolen	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 comb	det
14	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 comb	amod
15	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present	the story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	steal	past · perfect		spells = spell		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	have	past	the coarse comb			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	the coarse comb not said here		with comb	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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