The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 1

‘“Good morning,” said she, bowing politely to the donkey, who lifted her head in surprise.

Who acts: she, donkey · What happens: say, bow, lift · To what, where: head, surprise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, donkey), 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 morning	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
3	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bowing	punct
10	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
11	politely	politely	ADV	_	10 bowing	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 donkey	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 donkey	det
14	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bowing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lifted	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lifted	nsubj
17	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 donkey	acl:relcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 surprise	case
21	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lifted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bow	gerund	she not said here			to the donkey; politely property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to donkey=Pivot
3	lift	past	the donkey	donkey's head	surprise		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in surprise=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 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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