The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 14
‘“Now I will dance,” said the tongs, and she danced.
Who acts: tongs, beginning · What happens: dance, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tongs, beginning), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dance | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dance | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dance | aux |
| 6 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tongs | det |
| 11 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 danced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 danced | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance in a quote | future | the tongs = tong | now | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the tongs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | beginning | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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