The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 98

Nothing, he said, would go well with him any more: his ‘heart bird’ was caught.

Who acts: Nothing · What happens: say, go, catch · To what, where: heart bird · 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 (Nothing), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 go	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	obl
11	any	any	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 go	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bird	nmod:poss
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	compound
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caught	nsubj:pass
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caught	aux:pass
20	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	would			with man; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
3	catch	past · passive		man's heart bird		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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