The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 12

The farmer said he wanted a cowherd, as his own had left him, and if the girl liked the place she might take it.

Who acts: farmer, girl · What happens: say, want, leave, like, take · To what, where: cowherd, own, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cowherd	det
7	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 left	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 left	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wanted	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 liked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 liked	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 liked	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 liked	nsubj
20	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 liked	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 liked	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the farmer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	farmer	a cowherd	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cowherd=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect	farmer not said here	farmer's own	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	like a condition, not said to happen	past	the girl	the place	tree rules
5	take	might	girl	place	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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