The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 55
And Gerda stretched out her hands with the large fur gloves towards the little robber-girl and said, ‘Good-bye!’
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: stretch out, say · To what, where: hands · 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 (Gerda), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stretched | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gloves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gloves | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gloves | amod |
| 10 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gloves | compound |
| 11 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obl |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 15 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 robber | punct |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bye | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 bye | punct |
| 22 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bye | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Good | punct |
| 24 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 bye | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 bye | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Gerda | Gerda's hands | with the large fur gloves; towards the little robber girl | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with glove=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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