The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 103

One morning as he was going to his work, he said to his wife, ‘Let our eldest daughter bring me my lunch into the wood; and so that she shall not lose her way, I will take a bag of millet with me, and sprinkle the seed on the path.’

Who acts: woodcutter, eldest daughter, wife, I · What happens: go, say, let, bring, not lose, take · To what, where: One morning, eldest daughter, lunch, me, wood, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter, eldest daughter, wife, I), 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 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 morning	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 work	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct
18	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 daughter	amod
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Let	obj
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Let	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bring	iobj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lunch	nmod:poss
25	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 wood	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 take	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 so	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	42 take	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 lose	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lose	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lose	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 lose	advmod
36	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 take	advcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 way	nmod:poss
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lose	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lose	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 take	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 take	aux
42	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 bag	det
44	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 take	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 millet	case
46	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bag	nmod
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 take	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sprinkle	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sprinkle	cc
51	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 take	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 seed	det
53	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sprinkle	obj
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 path	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 path	det
56	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sprinkle	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 take	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	woodcutter	One morning not said here				to woodcutter's work	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	woodcutter				morning	to woodcutter's wife	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		our eldest daughter					tree rules
4	bring	infinitive	our eldest daughter not said here	my lunch	me	the wood			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination lunch=Theme
5	not lose	shall	wife	wife's way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
6	take	future	I	a bag of millet				with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
7	sprinkle	infinitive	I not said here	the seed		the path			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme on path=Destination
8	work		woodcutter						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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