The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 21

‘Oh! it would take much too long to tell you all that,’ said the stork, and off he went.

Who acts: it, snow · What happens: take, tell, say, go · To what, where: that, you, stork · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, snow), 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	_	6 take	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 take	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 that	det
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 tell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stork	det
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 went	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	would	it			long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		that	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past		the stork			tree rules
4	go	past	snow				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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