The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 71
Then the woman sent her second daughter and said: ‘Quick, quick, get him to come to me.’
Who acts: woman, peasant · What happens: send, say, get, come · To what, where: second daughter, peasant, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, peasant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | iobj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Quick | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Quick | punct |
| 12 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quick | punct |
| 14 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Quick | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Quick | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the woman | woman's second daughter | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | peasant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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