English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 5

“Child,” said the stepmother one day, “go to the grocer's shop and buy me a pound of candles.”

Who acts: Child · What happens: say, go, buy · To what, where: stepmother, shop, pound, Child · 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 (Child), 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 Child	punct
2	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Child	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Child	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 shop	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grocer	det
15	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shop	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 grocer	case
17	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 buy	cc
19	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 go	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 buy	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pound	det
22	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buy	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 candles	case
24	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pound	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Child	the stepmother			day	tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive				the grocer's shop		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
3	buy in a quote	infinitive		a pound of candles	Child			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary pound=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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