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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 13

‘It is for the young man who killed my wife, and stole my flying horse and my bed covering,’ said the dragon.

Who acts: box, young man, flying horse · What happens: be, kill, steal, fly, cover, say · To what, where: wife, flying horse, dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, young man, flying horse), 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

punctnsubjcopcasedetamodnsubjnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctccconjnmod:possamodobjccnmod:possconjaclpunctpunctdetobjpunctroot‘PUNCTItPRONisAUXforADPtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNwhoPRONkilledVERBmyPRONwifeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJstoleVERBmyPRONflyingVERBhorseNOUNandCCONJmyPRONbedNOUNcoveringVERB,PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETdragonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_7 manpunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 mannsubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 mancop
4forforADP_7 mancase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 mandet
6youngyoungADJDegree=Pos7 manamod
7manmanNOUNNumber=Sing24 saidnsubj
8whowhoPRONPronType=Rel9 killednsubj
9killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 manacl:relcl
10mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 wifenmod:poss
11wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing9 killedobj
12,,PUNCT_14 stolepunct
13andandCCONJ_14 stolecc
14stolestealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 killedconj
15mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 horsenmod:poss
16flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger17 horseamod
17horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing14 stoleobj
18andandCCONJ_20 bedcc
19mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 bednmod:poss
20bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing17 horseconj
21coveringcoverVERBVerbForm=Ger17 horseacl
22,,PUNCT_7 manpunct
23’'PUNCT_7 manpunct
24saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 dragondet
26dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing24 saidobj
27..PUNCT_24 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentboxfor the young mantree rules
2killpastthe young manmy wifevn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
3stealpastthe young man not said heremy flying horse and my bedvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
4flygerundvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5covergerundmy flying horse and my bed not said herevn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6say speech: assertpastthe young manthe dragonvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=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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