The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 44

‘Oh, it’s me, a poor little girl,’ said she; ‘my mother sent me out here, and told me to pull heather.

Who acts: roof, girl, mother · What happens: be, say, send out, tell, pull · To what, where: me, heather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, girl, mother), 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	_	6 me	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 me	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 me	nsubj
5	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 me	cop
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 girl	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 me	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sent	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 sent	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	nsubj
20	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sent	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 sent	compound:prt
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sent	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sent	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pull	mark
29	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 told	xcomp
30	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pull	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	roof	me			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	send out	past	my mother	me		here	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	my mother not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	pull not said to happen	to-infinitive	my mother not said here	heather			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heather=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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