The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 13

On the third morning the woodcutter said to his wife, ‘Send our youngest child to-day with my dinner.

Who acts: woodcutter · What happens: say, send · To what, where: wife, youngest child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woodcutter	det
6	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Send	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Send	punct
13	Send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
15	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 child	amod
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Send	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Send	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 dinner	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dinner	nmod:poss
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Send	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woodcutter		woodcutter's wife		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	send	infinitive	the woodcutter not said here	our youngest child			day	with my dinner	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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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