English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 9

“Go home to your minnie and tell her to keep her larder door better locked,” said the henwife.

Who acts: larder door, henwife · What happens: go, tell, keep, lock, say · To what, where: minnie, lassie, larder door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (larder door, henwife), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 minnie	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 minnie	nmod:poss
6	minnie	minnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 door	nmod:poss
13	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	compound
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obj
15	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 keep	advmod
16	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 keep	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 henwife	det
21	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive				your minnie	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to minnie=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			lassie			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		lassie's larder door			well property	tree rules
4	lock in a quote	participle	lassie's larder door not said here					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the henwife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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