The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 32

And when the men were dividing the money, one said, ‘Let us send a little to our friend’s mother,’ and they sent some to her; and every day one took her rice, and one oil; one took her meat, and one took her cloth, every day.

Who acts: men, one, us, arms, day · What happens: divide, say, let, send, take · To what, where: money, us, little, mother, some, rice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, one, us, arms), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 dividing	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dividing	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dividing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dividing	aux
6	dividing	divide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dividing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Let	punct
14	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Let	obj
16	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Let	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 send	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 mother	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mother	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 friend	case
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 send	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sent	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sent	nsubj
28	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 sent	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sent	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 took	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 day	cc
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	nsubj
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 day	flat
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 rice	nmod:poss
39	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 oil	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 oil	cc
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 oil	nummod
43	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 took	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 took	punct
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 took	nsubj
46	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 took	conj
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 meat	nmod:poss
48	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 took	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 took	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 took	cc
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 took	nsubj
52	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 took	conj
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 cloth	nmod:poss
54	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 took	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 day	punct
56	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	57 day	det
57	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 took	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	divide	past · progressive	the men	the money				vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
4	send	infinitive	us not said here	a little	our friend's mother			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent little=Theme to mother=Destination
5	send	past	arms = arm	some	mother			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to she=Destination
6	take	past	every day	mother's rice			one oil obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme
7	take	past	one	mother's meat				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
8	take	past	one	mother's cloth		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme

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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