The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 156

‘Good-bye, good-bye!’ called the prince and princess; and little Gerda cried, and the crow cried.

Who acts: little Gerda, crow · What happens: call, cry · To what, where: prince · 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 (little Gerda, crow), 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 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bye	punct
4	bye	bye	INTJ	_	2 Good	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bye	punct
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bye	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
8	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Good	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Good	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 princess	cc
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prince	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Gerda	amod
19	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Good	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cried	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crow	det
24	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cried	nsubj
25	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	call	participle		the prince and princess	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past	little Gerda		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	the crow		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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