The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 100

‘They did creak, certainly!’ said the crow.

Who acts: boots · What happens: do, say · To what, where: creak, crow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots), 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 did	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 certainly	punct
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 did	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 crow	det
11	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	boots = boot	creak				certainly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creak=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past		the crow					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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