The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 25

He laughed, and said to her: ‘You are a good child, but I was only joking.

Who acts: man, You, I · What happens: laugh, say, be, joke · To what, where: bride, good child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, You, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 child	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 child	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 child	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 child	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 joking	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 joking	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 joking	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 joking	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 joking	advmod
20	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 laughed	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	laugh	past	man			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	man not said here		bride	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	is a	present	You	a good child		tree rules
4	joke speech: other	past · progressive	I			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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