The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 18
‘Happy thought!’ says my friend Ladder, and nimble, bag and baggage, goes to keep company with friend Fox.
What happens: say, go, keep · To what, where: friend, company · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. 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 | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 9 | Ladder | Ladder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nimble | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nimble | cc |
| 12 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bag | punct |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nimble | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 baggage | cc |
| 16 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 goes | punct |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 goes | xcomp |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Fox | case |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Fox | compound |
| 24 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | present | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | company | with friend Fox | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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