The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 88

‘Take the reins,’ said she, ‘and strike them violently against the pillars of the house.’

Who acts: woman · What happens: take, say, strike · To what, where: reins, bits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. 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	7 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reins	det
4	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 she	punct
10	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	12 strike	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strike	cc
12	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strike	obj
14	violently	violently	ADV	_	12 strike	advmod
15	against	against	ADP	_	17 pillars	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pillars	det
17	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strike	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pillars	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 strike	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 strike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		the reins		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	infinitive		bits = bit	against the pillars of the house; violently property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Instrument against pillar=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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