The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 33

But the girl said she had her pigs to watch, and she must go and see after them.

Who acts: girl, Lion · What happens: say, have, watch, go, see · To what, where: pigs · 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 (girl, Lion), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pigs	nmod:poss
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	girl	Lion's pigs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient
3	watch	to-infinitive	girl not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	go	must	Lion			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	infinitive	Lion not said here		after pigs = pig	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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