The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 39

Then she told the girl to come near, and stroked her cheeks and spoke kindly to her, asking if her parents were alive, and if she really would like to stay with them.

Who acts: mother, parents · What happens: tell, come, stroke, speak, ask, be · To what, where: girl, cheeks, mother · 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 (mother, parents), 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 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	near	near	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stroked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stroked	cc
11	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheeks	nmod:poss
13	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stroked	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spoke	cc
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stroked	conj
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	15 spoke	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoke	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asking	punct
20	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 spoke	advcl
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 alive	mark
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 parents	nmod:poss
23	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 alive	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 alive	cop
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 asking	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 like	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 like	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 like	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 like	nsubj
30	really	really	ADV	_	32 like	advmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 like	aux
32	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stay	mark
34	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 like	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stay	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mother		the girl	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stroke	past		mother's cheeks				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer
4	speak speech: other	past			mother		kindly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
5	ask speech: ask	gerund						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	mother's parents				alive property	tree rules
7	like a condition, not said to happen	would	mother					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here				with parents = parent	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=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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