The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 15

So his mother said, ‘Very well, go to your aunt in the neighbouring village, and fetch me a comb.’

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, go, neighbour, fetch · To what, where: neighbouring village, comb, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
7	Very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 well	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 aunt	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 aunt	nmod:poss
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
16	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 village	amod
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fetch	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fetch	cc
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fetch	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 comb	det
23	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	messenger's mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive				the neighbouring village	to your aunt; well property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aunt=Initial_Location
3	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
4	fetch	infinitive		a comb	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary comb=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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