The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 83

When they had finished eating, the godmother led the child back, and on the way taught her the words she must say to the basket when she wanted it to give her something.

Who acts: words, godmother, basket · What happens: finish, eat, lead back, teach, say, want · To what, where: child, words, godmother, way, basket, something · 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 (words, godmother, basket), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 led	advcl
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 finished	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 godmother	det
8	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	9 led	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taught	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taught	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taught	obl
18	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 led	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taught	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 words	det
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taught	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 words	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 basket	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 basket	det
27	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 wanted	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 basket	acl:relcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wanted	xcomp
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 something	nmod:poss
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 give	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	words = word				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	words = word not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lead back	past	the godmother	the child			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	teach speech: other	past	the godmother not said here	the words	godmother	the way	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient word=Topic
5	say speech: assert	must	godmother	the words not said here	the basket		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to basket=Recipient
6	want	past	godmother	basket			tree rules
7	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	basket not said here	something			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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 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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