The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 49

“Good morning to you, little mother,” he said; and the old woman answered: “Good morning, my son.”

Who acts: hare, old woman · What happens: say, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, old woman), 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	_	3 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 morning	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
21	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 son	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 morning	vocative
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hare						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	the old woman				morning		vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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