The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 80
‘Hand me the basket,’ said she, ‘for you must have some supper.
Who acts: godmother, you · What happens: hand, say, have · To what, where: basket, me, supper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 2 | Hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Hand | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hand | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 supper | det |
| 17 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | infinitive | the basket | me | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination basket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | godmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | must | you | some supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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