The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 110

She took me for her husband, and I did not say her nay.’

Who acts: last, I · What happens: take, not say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	iobj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 husband	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nay	nmod:poss
14	nay	nay	INTJ	_	12 say	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	last		me			for last's husband	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for husband=Beneficiary
2	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nay=Topic

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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