The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 115

Well, prince and princess flew into one another’s arms, and says the little man, says he, ‘Why aren’t you eating?’

Who acts: prince, little man, you · What happens: fly, say, not be · To what, where: dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (prince, little man, you), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 princess	cc
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prince	conj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flew	obl
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 arms	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 another	case
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 says	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eating	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 eating	punct
23	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 eating	advmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 eating	cop
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 eating	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 eating	nsubj
27	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 says	advcl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 eating	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	prince and princess		into one another's arms result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into one=Result
2	say speech: assert	present	the little man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the little man not said here	dinner		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	not is	present	you		eat property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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