The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 14

Ciccu accepted gratefully, but said he must first return home and give the five florins to his brothers.

Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: accept, say, return, give · To what, where: five florins, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	2 accepted	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accepted	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 return	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 return	aux
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 return	advmod
10	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 return	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 return	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 florins	det
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 florins	nummod
16	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 brothers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	Ciccu			gratefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Ciccu not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return	must	Ciccu			first, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	present	Ciccu not said here	the five florins	Ciccu's brothers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent florin=Theme to brother=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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