The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 128

‘You should have gone to the foxes, as I told you,’ said she, striking the mare with a stick.

Who acts: You, I, mare · What happens: go, tell, say, strike · To what, where: you, mare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, mare), 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	_	5 gone	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 foxes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foxes	det
8	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 striking	punct
19	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mare	det
21	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 striking	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 stick	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stick	det
24	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 striking	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	should · perfect	You			to the foxes	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fox=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	mare				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	strike	gerund	mare not said here	the mare		with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mare=Patient with stick=Instrument

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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