The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 144
‘There, there, don’t be melancholy,’ said the Fairy.
What happens: do, not be, say · To what, where: melancholy, Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 there | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 there | expl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 there | conj |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 melancholy | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 melancholy | cop |
| 9 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | infinitive | melancholy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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