The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 49

“Alas! child,” she said, “I have nothing in the house, but I have spun a little cotton and will go and sell it.”

Who acts: child · What happens: say, have, spin, go, sell · To what, where: nothing, house, little cotton, cotton · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 child	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 have	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spun	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 spun	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 spun	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 spun	aux
21	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cotton	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cotton	amod
24	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spun	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 spun	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sell	cc
29	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 go	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sell	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	child	nothing	the house	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	spin in a quote	present · perfect	child	a little cotton		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cotton=Theme
4	go in a quote	future	child not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sell in a quote	infinitive	child not said here	cotton		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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