The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 2

‘I will take a bag of lentils,’ said he; ‘they are larger than millet, and the girl will see them better and be sure to find her way.’

Who acts: I, woodcutter, lentils, girl · What happens: take, say, be, see, find · To what, where: bag, lentils, way · 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 (I, woodcutter, lentils, girl), 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 take	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 lentils	case
8	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bag	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 larger	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 larger	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 larger	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 larger	cop
17	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 said	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 millet	case
19	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 larger	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 see	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sure	cc
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	cop
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 see	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	xcomp
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 way	nmod:poss
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	future	I	a bag of lentils		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	woodcutter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	lentils = lentil		than millet; large property	tree rules
4	see	future	the girl	lentils = lentil	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	is	infinitive	the girl not said here		sure property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	girl's way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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