The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 101

He called to his wife, who was washing in the kitchen: ‘Listen, Aita: when the robbers come and ask for me say I have gone to the vineyard.

Who acts: band, wife, robbers, me, I · What happens: call, wash, come, ask, say, go · To what, where: wife, kitchen, vineyard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band, wife, robbers, me), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 wife	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 washing	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 washing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 washing	aux
9	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wife	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 washing	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Listen	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Listen	punct
15	Listen	Listen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Aita	punct
17	Aita	Aita	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Listen	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 come	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 robbers	det
21	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	conj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 say	mark
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ask	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 gone	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	aux
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 say	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 vineyard	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 vineyard	det
33	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	band	band's wife		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	wash	past · progressive	band's wife		the kitchen	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	the robbers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	present	the robbers not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	present	me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go	present · perfect	I		the vineyard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to vineyard=Initial_Location

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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