The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 42

Then, turning to the others, she said: ‘Here are three shirts; take them to your chosen wives.

Who acts: mother, three shirts · What happens: turn, say, be, take, choose · To what, where: others, shirts, chosen wives · 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 (mother, three shirts), 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 turning	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turning	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turning	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Here	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Here	punct
12	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	ccomp
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Here	cop
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 shirts	nummod
15	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Here	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 wives	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wives	nmod:poss
21	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wives	amod
22	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	mother not said here			the others	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to other=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	mother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	three shirts					here property	tree rules
4	take	infinitive		shirts = shirt	your chosen wives				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wife=Destination
5	choose	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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