The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 150

‘Dear, dear!’ said the robber-girl, shook both their hands, and promised that if she came to their town she would come and see them.

Who acts: robber girl, girl · What happens: say, shake, promise, come, see · To what, where: hands, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber girl, girl), 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	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dear	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
9	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 girl	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 robber	punct
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shook	punct
13	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hands	det:predet
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shook	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 promised	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 promised	cc
19	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shook	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 come	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 town	nmod:poss
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 promised	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 see	cc
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the robber girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	the robber girl not said here	cheeks's hands		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	promise speech: promise	past	the robber girl not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come a condition, not said to happen	past	girl		hands's town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
5	come	would	girl			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	infinitive	girl not said here	hands = hand		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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