The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 202

She told me it was broad and not long, and this is broad and not long.

Who acts: mother, spear, this · What happens: tell, be, not be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, spear, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 broad	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broad	cop
6	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 long	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 broad	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broad	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 broad	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 broad	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broad	cop
14	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 broad	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 long	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 broad	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mother	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is	past	spear		broad property	tree rules
3	not be		spear not said here			tree rules
4	is	present	this		broad property	tree rules

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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