The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 190
‘Farewell, dear good little girl!’ said the swallow, and flew off into the sunshine.
Who acts: dear good little girl · What happens: say, fly off · To what, where: swallow, sunshine · 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 (dear good little girl), 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 | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 girl | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swallow | det |
| 12 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 flew | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 sunshine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sunshine | det |
| 19 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | dear good little girl | the swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly off | past | dear good little girl not said here | into the sunshine result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sunshine=Result |
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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