The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 19
‘Take this,’ she said; ‘here is the linen that I have spun for you.’
Who acts: woman, linen · What happens: take, say, be, spin · To what, where: this, linen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, linen), 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 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 linen | det |
| 13 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spun | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 spun | aux |
| 17 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 linen | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 spun | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the linen | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spin | present · perfect · passive | the linen | for you | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for you=Beneficiary |
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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