The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 41

When her mother had fallen asleep, the robber-girl went up to the reindeer and said, ‘I am going to set you free so that you can run to Lapland.

Who acts: mother, robber girl, I, you · What happens: fall, go up, say, go, set, run · To what, where: you, Lapland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, robber girl, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 fallen	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fallen	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
9	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 girl	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 robber	punct
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 reindeer	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reindeer	det
16	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 set	mark
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 set	obj
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 set	xcomp
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 run	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 run	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 run	aux
32	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 set	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Lapland	case
34	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 run	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	Gerda's mother			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go up	past	the robber girl			to the reindeer	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	the robber girl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result
6	run	can	you		Lapland		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lapland=Result

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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