The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 73

Then she sent the youngest girl, and he said: ‘I’ve not done drying myself.’

Who acts: woman, man, I · What happens: send, say, not do, dry · To what, where: youngest girl, myself · 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, man, I), 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	3 sent	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 done	nsubj
14	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 done	advmod
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
17	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 done	xcomp
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 drying	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	send	past	woman	the youngest girl	then	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	present · perfect	I			tree rules
4	dry	gerund	I not said here	myself		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient myself=Result

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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