The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 85

‘A story! a story!’ cried the children, and dragged a little stout man to the tree; he sat down beneath it, saying, ‘Here we are in the greenwood, and the tree will be delighted to listen!

Who acts: story, tree, we · What happens: cry, drag, sit down, say, be, listen · To what, where: children, little stout man, tree, story, greenwood · 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 (story, tree, we), 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	_	3 story	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dragged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dragged	cc
14	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dragged	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dragged	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	parataxis
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Here	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Here	punct
32	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 saying	ccomp
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 greenwood	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 greenwood	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 greenwood	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 greenwood	det
37	greenwood	greenwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Here	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 delighted	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 delighted	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 delighted	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 delighted	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 delighted	cop
44	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	parataxis
45	to	to	PART	_	46 listen	mark
46	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 delighted	advcl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a story	the children			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
2	drag	past	a story not said here	a little stout man	the tree		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to tree=Destination
3	sit down	past	tree		story		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	tree not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	we		the greenwood		tree rules
6	is	future	the tree			delighted property	tree rules
7	listen	to-infinitive	the tree not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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