The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 5

The girl went straight home and told her father what the woman had said.

Who acts: girl, woman · What happens: go, tell, say · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, woman), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 home	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 said	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the girl		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the girl not said here	daughter's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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