The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 15

She told Gerda not to be sad, and that she should stay with her and take of the cherry trees and flowers, which were better than any picture-bok, as they could each tell a story.

Who acts: Gerda, cherry trees, trees · What happens: tell, not be, stay, take, be, bok · To what, where: Gerda, cherry trees, story · 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 (Gerda, cherry trees, trees), 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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sad	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 sad	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stay	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 stay	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stay	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	aux
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stay	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stay	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trees	det
20	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trees	compound
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flowers	cc
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trees	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 better	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 better	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 better	cop
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 trees	parataxis
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 bok	mark
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 bok	det
30	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bok	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 picture	punct
32	bok	bok	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 better	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tell	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 tell	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tell	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 tell	nsubj
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 story	det
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tell	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda		Gerda		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here			sad property	tree rules
3	stay	should	Gerda			with ‘	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location
4	take	infinitive	Gerda not said here	the cherry trees and flowers			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
5	is	past	the cherry trees and flowers			good property	tree rules
6	bok	infinitive	the cherry trees and flowers not said here				tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	could	trees = tree	a story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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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