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

And her mistress answered her, ‘Where he is, none can tell better than the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind, for they go everywhere!’

Who acts: mistress, grass, none, Sun · What happens: answer, be, tell, go · To what, where: girl, Wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, grass, none, Sun), 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	_	4 answered	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mistress	nmod:poss
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
8	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 is	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 is	nsubj
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 tell	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 tell	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 Sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sun	det
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 better	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Moon	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Moon	det
21	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sun	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Wind	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Wind	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Wind	det
25	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 go	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 go	nsubj
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	ccomp
30	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 go	advmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	mistress's mistress		girl		tree rules
2	be	present	grass				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	can	none	the Wind		good property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	present	Sun			everywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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