The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 45

The next day, when they were all cutting wood, he said to his brothers, ‘That old coverlet and the purse are no use to you; I wish you would give them to me.

Who acts: next day, Ciccu, brothers, I, you · What happens: cut, be, say, wish, give · To what, where: cutting wood, use, you, seas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, Ciccu, brothers, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wood	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 wood	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wood	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wood	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 wood	advmod
9	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wood	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 use	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 coverlet	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 coverlet	punct
19	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 coverlet	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 coverlet	amod
21	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brothers	acl:relcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 purse	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 purse	det
24	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coverlet	conj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 use	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 use	det
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 use	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wish	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 wish	nsubj
32	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wood	parataxis
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wish	ccomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 give	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the next day	cutting wood		all property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Ciccu				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	Ciccu's brothers	no use	you		tree rules
5	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	give	would	you		seas = sea	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient

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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