The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 37

Next day the tailor’s wife said to her husband, ‘I have some girls coming to-day to help to card my wool there is a great deal to do, and we must be very busy.

Who acts: wife, I, girls, wool, we · What happens: say, have, come, help, be, do · To what, where: girls, card · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I, girls, wool), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 tailor	case
6	wife	wife	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 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 girls	det
16	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 girls	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coming	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 coming	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 card	mark
24	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 help	obj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wool	nmod:poss
26	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 is	nsubj
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 is	expl
28	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 card	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 deal	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 deal	amod
31	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 is	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 deal	acl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 busy	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 busy	cc
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 busy	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 busy	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 busy	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 busy	advmod
40	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 have	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the tailor's wife			day	to tailor's husband	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to husband=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	some girls				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	come	gerund	some girls not said here			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	to-infinitive	some girls not said here	card				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Beneficiary
5	be	present	my wool	card not said here	there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot card=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive	my wool not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	must	we				busy property	tree rules

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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