The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 161

‘No,’ he said, ‘there’s no need for that;’ and he stuck his hand into the fire.

Who acts: man · What happens: say, stick · To what, where: hand, fire · 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 (man), 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 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ’s	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 ’s	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 ’s	expl
10	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 need	det
12	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ’s	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 need	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stuck	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stuck	nsubj
19	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stuck	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stuck	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stick	past	man	man's hand		the fire			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into fire=Destination

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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