The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 63

‘To-night,’ they all said, ‘to-night it will be lighted!’

Who acts: Dolls · What happens: say, light · To what, where: right · 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 (Dolls), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 they	punct
6	’	'	CCONJ	_	7 they	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 they	det
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 lighted	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lighted	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lighted	nsubj:pass
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lighted	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 lighted	aux:pass
18	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 lighted	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dolls = doll				night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	light	future · passive		right			night		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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