The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 72
Then the reindeer told his story, and afterwards little Gerda’s and the Finland woman blinked her eyes but said nothing.
Who acts: reindeer, little Gerda · What happens: tell, blink, say · To what, where: story, eyes, nothing · 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 (reindeer, little 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reindeer | det |
| 3 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blinked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blinked | cc |
| 9 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Gerda | amod |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 blinked | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Gerda | case |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 woman | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | compound |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Gerda | conj |
| 17 | blinked | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blinked | obj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blinked | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the reindeer | fish's story | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | blink | past | little Gerda and the Finland woman | woman's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | little Gerda and the Finland woman not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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