The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 53

‘The Porcelain Maiden,’ said the hare to the youth, ‘will come here to bathe with her friends, while I just eat a mouthful of thyme to refresh me.

Who acts: Porcelain Maiden, ‘, I · What happens: say, come, bathe, eat, refresh · To what, where: hare, mouthful, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcelain Maiden, ‘, I), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Maiden	det
3	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Maiden	compound
4	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Maiden	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Maiden	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hare	det
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 youth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hare	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bathe	mark
19	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 friends	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 friends	nmod:poss
22	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bathe	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 eat	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 eat	advmod
27	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mouthful	det
29	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 thyme	case
31	thyme	thyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mouthful	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 refresh	mark
33	refresh	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 eat	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 refresh	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Porcelain Maiden	the hare		to the youth	tree rules
2	come	future	‘		here		tree rules
3	bathe	to-infinitive	‘ not said here			with Maiden's friends	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with friend=Theme
4	eat	present	I	a mouthful of thyme			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient
5	refresh	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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