The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 38

Then the girl told her the whole story, and the Moon listened, and was sorry for her; and though she could not tell her where to find her husband, she gave her an almond, and told her to crack it when she was in great need.

Who acts: girl, Moon · What happens: tell, listen, be, not tell, find, give · To what, where: whole story, Moon, girl, husband, almond, great need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Moon), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 listened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 listened	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Moon	det
12	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 listened	nsubj
13	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sorry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sorry	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sorry	cop
17	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 listened	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sorry	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 find	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	ccomp
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gave	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	nsubj
35	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	iobj
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 almond	det
38	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gave	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 told	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 told	cc
41	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 told	iobj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 crack	mark
44	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 told	xcomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 crack	obj
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 need	advmod
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 need	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 need	cop
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 need	case
50	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 need	amod
51	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 crack	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the girl	the whole story	Moon		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic
2	listen	past	the Moon						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Moon not said here					for Moon; sorry property	tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert	could	Moon		girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	find not said to happen	to-infinitive		Moon's husband					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic
6	give	past	Moon	a almond	girl				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient almond=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past			Moon				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
8	crack not said to happen	to-infinitive		almond					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
9	is	past	Moon			great need			tree rules

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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