The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 81

So she sent at once to say she would buy the dress, and what sum did the maiden want for it.

Who acts: princess, sum, maiden · What happens: send, say, buy, do, want · To what, where: dress · 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 (princess, sum, maiden), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 sent	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buy	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 buy	aux
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dress	det
12	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buy	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 did	obj
16	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maiden	det
19	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 did	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 want	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	princess			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	princess not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	buy	would	princess	the dress		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
4	do	past	sum			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	want	present	the maiden		for dress	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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