The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 98

And the young man whispered, ‘Good father, before we were six, and now we are seven.’

Who acts: young man, we · What happens: whisper, be · To what, where: Good father, six, seven

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 whispered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	nsubj
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
8	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 father	amod
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 six	punct
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 six	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 six	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 six	cop
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 whispered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seven	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seven	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 seven	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 seven	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seven	cop
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 six	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 whispered	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the young man	Good father		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic
2	is a	past	we	six		tree rules
3	is a	present	we	seven	now	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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