The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 60
So Marie kissed the girl and said: ‘Go, my Snowflake, and be happy with your friends, and you, dear children, be careful of her.
Who acts: Marie · What happens: kiss, say, go, be · To what, where: girl, Snowflake · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Snowflake | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Snowflake | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Snowflake | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happy | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 happy | cop |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Go | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 happy | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 you | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 you | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 Go | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 children | punct |
| 25 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 you | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 careful | punct |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 careful | cop |
| 29 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Go | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 careful | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Marie | the girl | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Marie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | my Snowflake | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | with your friends; happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | of Snowflake; careful property | tree rules |
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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