The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 157

One day his wife took a fancy for broth, and said to him, ‘Oh, go to the village, and buy a piece of beef to make broth.’

Who acts: wife · What happens: take, say, go, buy, make · To what, where: fancy, man, village, piece, broth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl:unmarked
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fancy	det
7	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 broth	case
9	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fancy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 go	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 village	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 village	det
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 buy	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 buy	cc
25	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 go	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buy	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 beef	case
29	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 piece	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 buy	advcl
32	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	man's wife	a fancy			day	for broth	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme for broth=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	man's wife not said here		man				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive				the village			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
4	buy	infinitive		a piece of beef					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive		broth					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset broth=Product

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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