The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 38

‘There’s more of that over there!’ said the grocer ‘I gave an old woman some coffee for the book.

Who acts: grocer · What happens: say, give · To what, where: coffee, old woman · 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 (grocer), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 ’s	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 more	obl
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grocer	det
13	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	iobj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 coffee	det
21	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 book	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 book	det
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coffee	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	the grocer	some coffee	a old woman			for the book	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient coffee=Theme for book=Asset

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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