The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 178

‘Thank you, pretty little child!’ said the swallow to her.

Who acts: swallow · What happens: thank, say · To what, where: little child, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow), 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 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swallow	det
12	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swallow	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present		little child	you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the swallow to THUMBELINA						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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