The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 37

‘The witch has scattered barleycorns on the hearth, and bid me pick them out of the ashes,’ said the girl; ‘that is why I weep, dear little mother.’

Who acts: girl, that, I · What happens: scatter, bid, pick, say, be, weep · To what, where: witch, hearth, me, barleycorns, ashes, dear little mother · 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 (girl, that, I), 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	_	5 scattered	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scattered	aux
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 said	ccomp
6	barleycorns	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scattered	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hearth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hearth	det
9	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scattered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bid	cc
12	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 scattered	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 bid	obj
14	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bid	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pick	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 ashes	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ashes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ashes	det
19	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pick	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scattered	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 scattered	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 why	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 why	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 why	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 why	cop
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 said	parataxis
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 weep	nsubj
31	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 why	advcl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mother	punct
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mother	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mother	amod
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 weep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	present · perfect · passive		the witch	the hearth		tree rules
2	bid	infinitive		me			tree rules
3	pick	infinitive		barleycorns = barleycorn	the ashes		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
6	weep	present	I	dear little mother			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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