The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 66

I will write some words on a dried stock-fish, for I have no paper, and you must give it to the Finland woman, for she can give you better advice than I can.’

Who acts: I, you, woman · What happens: write, dry, have, give · To what, where: words, paper, Finland woman, better advice, you

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 (I, you, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 fish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fish	det
8	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fish	amod
9	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 stock	punct
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 write	advcl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 paper	det
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 woman	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 woman	det
26	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 woman	compound
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 give	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	parataxis
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 advice	amod
35	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	38 can	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 can	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	future	I	some words		on a dried stock fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on fish=Destination
2	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	I	no paper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient
4	give	must	you	paper	the Finland woman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to woman=Recipient
5	give	can	woman	better advice	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=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 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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