The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 110

‘Thanks, Maiden Bright-eye,’ said the dog.

What happens: say · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Thanks	punct
2	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Maiden	punct
4	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Thanks	appos
5	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Maiden	flat
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 eye	punct
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Maiden	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thanks	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thanks	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=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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