The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 74

‘You must cross your legs,’ said the daughter; but Esben could not understand what she meant by this.

Who acts: You, daughter, Esben · What happens: cross, say, not understand, mean · To what, where: legs · 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 (You, daughter, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 cross	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 understand	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 understand	cc
14	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 understand	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 understand	advmod
17	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 meant	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 meant	nsubj
20	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 understand	ccomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 meant	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	must	You	your legs		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not understand	could	Esben			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mean	past	Esben		by this	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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