The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 63

By this time Esben was tired of staying in the dark hole, so he told her to go and cut a teat off a cow, and give it to the witch to bite at.

Who acts: Esben, property · What happens: be, stay, tell, go, cut, give · To what, where: dark hole, Esben, teat, witch · 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, property), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tired	obl
4	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tired	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 staying	mark
8	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tired	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 hole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hole	amod
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
21	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 teat	det
23	teat	teat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 cow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cow	det
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 witch	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 witch	det
33	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 bite	mark
35	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 witch	acl
36	at	at	ADP	_	35 bite	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Esben				time	tired property	tree rules
2	stay	gerund	Esben not said here			the dark hole			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	property		Esben				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	property not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cut	infinitive	property not said here	a teat				off a cow	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent teat=Patient off cow=Co-Patient
6	give	infinitive	property not said here	teat	the witch				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to witch=Recipient
7	bite	to-infinitive	property 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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