The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 118

‘Very well,’ said he, ‘and now good-bye; I am going after the nyamatsane.’

Who acts: husband, I · What happens: say, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
9	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 good	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
14	bye	bye	INTJ	_	12 good	flat
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 nyamatsane	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nyamatsane	det
21	nyamatsane	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	husband					well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	I				after the nyamatsane		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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