English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 21

Then said the stepmother, “I cannot part your hair with a comb, fetch me an axe.”

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not part, fetch · To what, where: stepmother, hair, axe, me · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stepmother	det
4	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 part	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 part	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 part	advmod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepmother	appos
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 comb	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 comb	det
15	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fetch	obj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 axe	det
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the stepmother		then		tree rules
2	not part in a quote	can	I	your hair			with a comb	tree rules
3	fetch in a quote	infinitive		a axe	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary axe=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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