The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 95

The mound then opened, and his youngest daughter came out of it, and said, ‘Why, father! why are you not coming in to see me?’

Who acts: mound, youngest daughter, father · What happens: open, come out, say, not come in, see · To what, where: bread, me · 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 (mound, youngest daughter, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mound	det
2	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 opened	advmod
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 daughter	amod
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 it	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Why	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Why	punct
19	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coming	nsubj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 coming	advmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 coming	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 coming	nsubj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 coming	advmod
27	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 Why	advcl:relcl
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 coming	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 coming	advcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 Why	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	open	past	the mound		then	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	mound's youngest daughter	bread		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	the mound not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not come in	present · progressive	father			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	father not said here	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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