English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 19

Then the stepmother hated her more for the beauty of her hair; so she said to her, “I cannot part your hair on my knee, fetch a billet of wood.”

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: hate, say, not part, fetch · To what, where: lap, hair, knee, billet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hated	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepmother	det
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hated	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 beauty	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beauty	det
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 more	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hair	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beauty	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hated	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 part	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 part	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 part	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 part	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 part	advmod
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 part	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 knee	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 knee	nmod:poss
29	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 part	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fetch	punct
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 billet	det
33	billet	billet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fetch	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 wood	case
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 billet	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 fetch	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	hate	past	the stepmother	lap			then	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	stepmother		lap			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not part in a quote	can	stepmother	your hair		my knee		tree rules
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive		a billet of wood				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billet=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: «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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