The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 31

She took him by the hand and said to him, ‘Come inside, and see if this is not much better.’

Who acts: wife, this · What happens: take, say, come, see, be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
13	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	inside	inside	ADV	_	13 Come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Come	conj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 better	mark
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 better	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 better	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 better	advmod
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 see	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	wife	man	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	wife not said here	man		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	come	infinitive			inside property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	present	this		good property	tree rules

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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