The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 113

‘The cinder wench is not here,’ said the Prince at last; ‘go and fetch her, and let her try on the things.’

Who acts: cinder wench, Prince, thing · What happens: not be, say, go, fetch, let, try · To what, where: last, thing, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cinder wench, Prince, thing), 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	_	7 here	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wench	det
3	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wench	compound
4	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 here	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 here	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 here	advmod
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 here	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fetch	cc
19	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 go	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fetch	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 go	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 things	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 things	det
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 try	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the cinder wench			here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Prince		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive		thing			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	let	infinitive		thing			tree rules
6	try	infinitive	thing not said here		the things		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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