The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 57

She told the whole story--for she always told the truth--that a little man had come to her out on the moor and had given her all this beauty.

Who acts: world, little man · What happens: tell, come out, give · To what, where: whole story, truth, world, moor, beauty · 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 (world, little man), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	obl
22	out	out	ADP	_	19 come	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 moor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moor	det
25	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 given	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 come	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 beauty	det:predet
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 beauty	det
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	world	the whole story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	world	the truth			always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	come out	past · perfect	a little man		world	the moor		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	give	past · perfect	a little man not said here	all beauty	world			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient beauty=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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