The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 82
And then she gave her the golden spinning-wheel, saying: “Perhaps you may find that you have a use for it.”
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: give, say, find, have · To what, where: golden spinning wheel, crone, use · 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 (girl, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wheel | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wheel | amod |
| 8 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wheel | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 spinning | punct |
| 10 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 15 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 find | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 use | det |
| 23 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 use | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | girl | the golden spinning wheel | crone | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wheel=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | may | you | perhaps property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | a use | for use | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient |
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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