The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 15

But the farmers’ wives would have nothing to say to such a dirty maiden, and sent her away with a morsel of bread for charity’s sake.

Who acts: wives · What happens: have, say, send away · To what, where: nothing, dirty maiden, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmers	det
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wives	nmod:poss
4	’	's	PART	_	3 farmers	case
5	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 have	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 maiden	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 maiden	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maiden	amod
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sent	cc
18	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sent	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	18 sent	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 morsel	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 morsel	det
23	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 bread	case
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 morsel	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 sake	case
27	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sake	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 charity	case
29	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bread	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	the farmers's wives	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the farmers's wives not said here	nothing not said here	such dirty maiden		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient
3	send away	past		Princess		with a morsel of bread for charity's sake; away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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