The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 29

‘Brush yourself!’ said the woman’s daughter.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: brush, say · To what, where: yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	_	2 Brush	punct
2	Brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Brush	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Brush	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Brush	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 woman	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	infinitive		yourself					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman's daughter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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