The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 65
So the old Fairy said she would think it over, and come again the next day.
Who acts: old Fairy, Fairy · What happens: say, think over, come · To what, where: task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Fairy, Fairy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fairy | amod |
| 4 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 think | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think over speech: other | would | Fairy | task | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | Fairy not said here | again; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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