The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 94

He nodded to them, saying, “It must be rather dull standing on the stairs; I would rather go inside!”

Who acts: Kay, bit · What happens: nod, say, be, stand, go · To what, where: footmen, stairs · 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 (Kay, bit), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 nodded	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dull	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 dull	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dull	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dull	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dull	cop
12	rather	rather	ADV	_	13 dull	advmod
13	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saying	ccomp
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 dull	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stairs	det
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 standing	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 nodded	parataxis
23	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	nod	past	Kay	footmen = footman			tree rules
2	say speech: express	gerund	Kay not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	must	bit			dull property	tree rules
4	stand in a quote	gerund	bit not said here		the stairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
5	go in a quote	would	Kay			inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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