The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 67

And when Gerda was warmed and had had something to eat and drink, the Lapland woman wrote on a dried stock-fish, and begged Gerda to take care of it, tied Gerda securely on the reindeer’s back, and away they went again.

Who acts: Lapland woman, words · What happens: warm, have, eat, drink, write, dry · To what, where: Gerda, something, care

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 (Lapland woman, words), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 warmed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 warmed	advmod
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warmed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warmed	aux:pass
5	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 warmed	conj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 something	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 eat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrote	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 woman	compound
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	nsubj
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warmed	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	24 fish	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fish	det
21	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fish	amod
22	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fish	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 stock	punct
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begged	cc
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrote	conj
28	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 begged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 take	mark
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	xcomp
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 take	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tied	punct
35	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 begged	conj
36	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 tied	obj
37	securely	securely	ADV	_	35 tied	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 reindeer	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 reindeer	det
40	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ’s	obl
41	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 tied	conj
42	back	back	ADV	_	41 ’s	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 went	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 went	cc
45	away	away	ADV	_	47 went	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 went	nsubj
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrote	conj
48	again	again	ADV	_	47 went	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	warm	past · passive		Gerda				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	have	past · perfect		something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive		something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write	past	the Lapland woman				on a dried stock fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	beg speech: request	past	the Lapland woman not said here		Gerda			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic
8	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Lapland woman not said here	care			of care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location
9	tie	past	the Lapland woman not said here	Gerda			securely property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Patient
10	go	past	words = word			again	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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