The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 20

‘Coo, coo!’ said the wood-pigeons.

Who acts: Coo · What happens: say · To what, where: wood pigeons · 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 (Coo), 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 Coo	punct
2	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 coo	punct
4	coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Coo	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Coo	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Coo	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 pigeons	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pigeons	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
11	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Coo and coo	the wood pigeons					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pigeon=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 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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