The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 59

Esben told her to take an iron nail and wrap a piece of skin round it: she could then give her mother this to bite at.

Who acts: Esben · What happens: tell, take, wrap, give, bite · To what, where: daughter, iron nail, piece, this, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben), 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	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nail	det
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nail	compound
8	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrap	cc
10	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrap	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 skin	case
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 skin	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 give	advmod
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 give	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bite	mark
26	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 give	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	26 bite	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Esben		daughter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Esben not said here	a iron nail			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme
3	wrap	present	Esben not said here	a piece of skin round skin			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
4	give	could	Esben	this	daughter's mother	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient this=Theme
5	bite	to-infinitive	Esben not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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