The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 122
The girl must, however, have told her mother what Elsa had said, for a few days later she spoke to Elsa seriously:
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: tell, say, speak · To what, where: girl, mother, Elsa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 must | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 told | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | obj |
| 12 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 days | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 days | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 later | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 said | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoke | nsubj |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Elsa | case |
| 24 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | obl |
| 25 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 22 spoke | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must · perfect · passive | the girl | girl's mother | however property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient mother=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Elsa | late property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Elsa | Elsa | seriously property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to elsa=Co-Agent |
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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