The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 48

Then the old beggar-woman said to her benefactor:

Who acts: old beggar woman · What happens: say · To what, where: benefactor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old beggar woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woman	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 beggar	punct
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 benefactor	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 benefactor	nmod:poss
10	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old beggar woman		woman's benefactor		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to benefactor=Recipient

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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