The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 23

‘You rag!’ said the iron, travelling proudly over the shirt-collar, for it thought it was a steam engine and ought to be at the station drawing trucks.

Who acts: You, iron, station · What happens: rag, say, travel, think, be, draw · To what, where: iron, shirt collar, steam engine, station, trucks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, iron, station), 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	_	3 rag	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 rag	nsubj
3	rag	rag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 rag	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 rag	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 iron	det
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 travelling	punct
10	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
11	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	10 travelling	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	16 collar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 collar	det
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 collar	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shirt	punct
16	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travelling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 thought	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 engine	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 engine	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 engine	det
24	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 engine	compound
25	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 station	cc
27	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 station	aux
28	to	to	PART	_	32 station	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 station	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 station	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 station	det
32	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 engine	conj
33	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 station	acl
34	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 drawing	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rag	present	You				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the iron			tree rules
3	travel	gerund			the shirt collar	proudly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over collar=Trajectory
4	think speech: other	past	iron				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	iron	a steam engine and the station			tree rules
6	is	ought	iron not said here		the station		tree rules
7	draw	gerund	the station not said here	trucks			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truck=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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