The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 58

‘Those are my dear old northern lights,’ said the reindeer; ‘see how they shine!’

Who acts: dear old northern lights, lights · What happens: be, say, see, shine · To what, where: dear old northern lights, reindeer · 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 (dear old northern lights, lights), 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	_	8 lights	punct
2	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 lights	det
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lights	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lights	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lights	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lights	amod
7	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lights	amod
8	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lights	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 lights	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reindeer	det
13	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 shine	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shine	nsubj
19	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 see	ccomp
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		my dear old northern lights	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my dear old northern lights	the reindeer	tree rules
3	see	infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	shine	present	lights = light		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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