The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 72

‘Poor little cock!’ she said, ‘and how am I to deliver you?’

Who acts: Bellah, I · What happens: say, deliver · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (Bellah, I), 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	_	4 cock	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cock	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cock	amod
4	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 cock	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cock	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 deliver	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 deliver	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 deliver	advmod
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 deliver	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 deliver	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 deliver	mark
16	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 deliver	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 deliver	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 deliver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bellah						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deliver	present	I	you					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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