The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 72

‘Get down, and give the poor things some honey,’ said the horse, and Ciccu dismounted.

Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: get down, give, say, dismount · To what, where: poor things, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu), 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 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Get	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 give	cc
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Get	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 honey	det
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 things	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dismounted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dismounted	cc
19	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 dismounted	nsubj
20	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get down	infinitive			down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	give	infinitive		the poor things some honey		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the horse		tree rules
4	dismount	past	Ciccu			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: 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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