The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 139

‘You should have gone among the wolves,’ said she, striking her with a stick.

Who acts: You, mare · What happens: go, say, strike · To what, where: wolves, 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, 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	11 said	ccomp
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 wolves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolves	det
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 striking	punct
14	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 striking	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 stick	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stick	det
18	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 striking	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	should · perfect	You		the wolves		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among wolf=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	mare				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	gerund	mare not said here	mare		with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=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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