The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 38

'There! there!' said her husband, laying his paw on her shoulder. '

Who acts: husband · What happens: say, lay · To what, where: paw, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 There	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 said	expl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 There	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laying	punct
11	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 paw	nmod:poss
13	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shoulder	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoulder	nmod:poss
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	help's husband			there			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lay	gerund	help's husband not said here	Wolf's paw		help's shoulder			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on shoulder=Destination

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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