The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 47

But the wolf kept on encouraging Ferko, and said, ‘Go on! go on!’

What happens: keep, encourage, say, go on · To what, where: wolf, Ferko · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 encouraging	mark
6	encouraging	encourage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl
7	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 encouraging	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
13	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 Go	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 Go	conj
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	participle · passive	the wolf	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	encourage	gerund	Ferko	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ferko=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go on	infinitive		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go on	infinitive		vn function-105.2.1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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