The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 259
‘Take also this cloth,’ she said, ‘to cover it with, and this pillow for its head.
Who acts: woman · What happens: take, say, cover · To what, where: cloth, pillow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 cloth | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cloth | det |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cover | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cover | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cover | mark |
| 13 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cover | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cover | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pillow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pillow | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 pillow | det |
| 19 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pillow | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | this cloth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | this pillow for pillow's head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive | cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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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