The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 7

The mother sat down on the staircase beside her daughter and said, ‘I will think about it with you, my dear.’

Who acts: mother, I · What happens: sit down, say, think · To what, where: staircase · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 staircase	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 staircase	det
7	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 think	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dear	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dear	nmod:poss
24	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 think	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the mother	the staircase	beside mother's daughter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on staircase=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	future	I		about staircase; with you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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