The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 29

There was silence for a while, and then the giant spoke softly: 'It is good, O Makoma!' he said. '

Who acts: silence, Makoma · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, Makoma), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spoke	cop
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spoke	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 giant	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spoke	xcomp
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
13	softly	softly	ADV	_	12 spoke	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
16	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 good	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spoke	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Makoma	punct
20	O	o	INTJ	_	21 Makoma	discourse
21	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 good	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Makoma	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		giant, softly, speak property	tree rules
2	is	present	silence	good property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Makoma		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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