The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 15

‘Making a snow-child,’ replied Marie.

Who acts: Marie · What happens: make, reply · To what, where: snow child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marie), 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	_	2 Making	punct
2	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 replied	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 snow	punct
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Making	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		a snow child					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product
2	reply speech: assert	past	Marie						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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