The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 211

The poor little girl was very sad; for now she must say good-bye to the beautiful sun.

Who acts: poor little girl, girl · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good bye, beautiful sun. · 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 (poor little girl, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 now	case
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 say	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sad	conj
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bye	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
16	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 sun.	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun.	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sun.	amod
20	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor little girl					sad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	must	girl	good bye	the beautiful sun.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to sun.=Recipient

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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