The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 31

Then he told her his difficulty, and that he did not know to whom he should take the puppy.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: tell, not know, take · To what, where: difficulty, woman, puppy · 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 (youngest), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 difficulty	nmod:poss
6	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 know	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 know	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 puppy	det
20	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	youngest = young	youngest's difficulty	woman	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient difficulty=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	youngest = young				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	should	youngest = young		the puppy		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument puppy=Destination

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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