The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 7

But the fairies said they had left their book of magic at home, and they would come another day and tell her.

Who acts: fairies · What happens: say, leave, come, tell · To what, where: book, home, Rosette · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairies	det
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 book	nmod:poss
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 magic	case
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 book	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl:unmarked
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fairies					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	past · perfect	fairies = fairy	fairies's book of magic		home		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Theme at home=Location
3	come	would	fairies = fairy				day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here		Rosette			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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