The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 21

On the following day she sent him back to the town, saying, ‘Here, take our last hundred florins, and buy provisions with them.

Who acts: handful · What happens: follow, send back, say, take, buy · To what, where: Martin, town, last hundred florins, provisions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handful), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sent	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Here	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Here	punct
16	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 saying	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 florins	nmod:poss
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 florins	amod
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 florins	nummod
22	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 buy	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 buy	cc
25	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
26	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 buy	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 buy	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send back	past	handful	Martin	the town	day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to town=Destination
3	say speech: assert	gerund	handful not said here		here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	infinitive		our last hundred florins				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent florin=Theme
5	buy	infinitive		provisions			with provisions = provision	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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