The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 11

Then the fairest in the world held out her hand to Ciccu and smiled, saying, ‘Now we will be man and wife.’

Who acts: we · What happens: hold out, smile, say, be · To what, where: fairest, Ciccu, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 held	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairest	det
3	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 held	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fairest	obl
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 held	compound:prt
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Ciccu	case
12	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 smiled	cc
14	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 held	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 smiled	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
19	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 man	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 man	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 man	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 man	cop
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saying	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wife	cc
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hold out	past		the fairest	Ciccu	then	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	smile	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	future	we	man and wife		now	tree rules

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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