The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 57
‘Gently, gently!’ said the crow.
What happens: say · To what, where: 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: 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 Gently | punct |
| 2 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gently | punct |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 Gently | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gently | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gently | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crow=Topic |
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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