The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 26

‘All right, then,’ said her husband, somewhat provoked, ‘you can sing a song to the fairies.’

Who acts: husband, you · What happens: say, provoke, sing · To what, where: song, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 right	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 right	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 provoked	punct
12	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	13 provoked	advmod
13	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sing	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sing	aux
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 provoked	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 song	det
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sing	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 fairies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fairies	det
23	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Maie's husband				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	provoke	participle				somewhat property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express	can	you	a song	the fairies		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to fairy=Recipient

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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