The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 83

'Ashes! ashes!' they twittered; and the girl looked at them and said:

Who acts: Ashes, girl · What happens: twitter, look, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ashes, girl), 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 Ashes	punct
2	Ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twittered	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ashes	punct
4	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Ashes	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ashes	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ashes	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 twittered	nsubj
8	twittered	twitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twittered	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twittered	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 twittered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	twitter	past	Ashes and ashes		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	the girl	at Ashes = ash	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Ashes and ashes not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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