The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 6

‘And now, my dear,’ she said, ‘I am going for a walk, if you don’t want me any longer.’

Who acts: ‘, I, you · What happens: say, go, not want · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, I, 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 dear	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dear	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dear	nmod:poss
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ‘	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ‘	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 ‘	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 walk	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 walk	det
18	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 want	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 want	advmod
24	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 want	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	‘			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	I		for a walk	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary
3	not want a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	me	long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme

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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