The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 57

‘Now I will tell the student!’ and with these words he crept softly up the stairs to the attic where the student lived.

Who acts: I, student · What happens: tell, creep, live · To what, where: student, attic · 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 (I, student), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 student	det
7	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crept	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 words	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 words	det
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crept	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 crept	nsubj
15	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
16	softly	softly	ADV	_	15 crept	advmod
17	up	up	ADP	_	19 stairs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stairs	det
19	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crept	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 attic	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 attic	det
22	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crept	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lived	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 student	det
25	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 attic	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	the student		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent student=Recipient
2	creep	past	student		the attic		with this words; up the stairs; softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to attic=Destination
3	live	past	the student					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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