The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 76

A little dog was with her, and she said to it, ‘Go out, Little Snow, and see if it will soon be day!’

Who acts: little dog, maiden, dog · What happens: be, say, go out, see · To what, where: dog, Little Snow, day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dog, maiden, dog), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 her	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 her	cop
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
15	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 Go	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Snow	punct
18	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Snow	amod
19	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Go	conj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 day	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 day	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 day	aux
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 day	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 day	cop
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	ccomp
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a little dog			with maiden	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	maiden		dog		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to it=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go out	infinitive		Little Snow		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	future	dog	day		soon property	tree rules

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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