The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 30

And she said to her husband: ‘Old man, you had better go out into the fields and find your daughter’s body and bury her.’

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, have, go out, find, bury · To what, where: husband, fields, body, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 husband	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 husband	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 had	xcomp
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 fields	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 body	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 daughter	case
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bury	cc
27	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 find	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bury	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother		mother's husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
2	have	past	you				good property	tree rules
3	go out	infinitive	you not said here			the fields	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	infinitive	you not said here	your daughter's body				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic
5	bury	infinitive	you not said here	mother				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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