The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 134

‘My betrothed has told me many nice things about you, my dear young lady,’ she said.

Who acts: lamp · What happens: betroth, tell, say · To what, where: many nice things, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp), 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	_	5 told	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 told	nmod:poss
3	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 things	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lady	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lady	nmod:poss
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 things	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	betroth	participle					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		many nice things and my dear young lady	me	about you	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	lamp				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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