The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 74

Then she gave her the gold carding-comb, for it might, perhaps, be of use to her, she said.

Who acts: woman · What happens: give, be, say · To what, where: gold carding comb, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 comb	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comb	compound
7	carding	carding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comb	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 carding	punct
9	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 might	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 might	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 might	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 perhaps	punct
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 use	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 perhaps	punct
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 use	cop
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 use	case
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	the gold carding comb		then		tree rules
2	is	infinitive			woman		of use; perhaps property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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