The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 115

‘Lovers!’ replied the yard-dog.

Who acts: Lovers · What happens: reply · To what, where: yard dog

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lovers), 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 Lovers	punct
2	Lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 replied	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Lovers	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lovers	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dog	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 yard	punct
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Lovers	the yard dog					vn say-37.7-1 «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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