The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 188

‘Ah! now I understand why he loved the stove,’ said the yard-dog.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: understand, love, say · To what, where: stove, yard dog · 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 (I, man), 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 understand	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 understand	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 understand	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
6	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 loved	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stove	det
11	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 loved	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	18 dog	det
16	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dog	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 yard	punct
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	understand	present	I		now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	love	past	man	the stove		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stove=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past		the yard dog		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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