The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 49

And the dogs answered in their tongue: “Come in, and for once we shall have enough to eat.”

Who acts: dogs, we · What happens: answer, come in, have, eat · To what, where: tongue, enough · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tongue	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tongue	nmod:poss
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct
10	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 Come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 have	obl
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Come	conj
19	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 have	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 enough	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the dogs		dogs's tongue	tree rules
2	come in in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	shall	we	enough		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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