The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 253

‘Tweet, tweet!’ he sang to her.

Who acts: Tweet · What happens: sing · To what, where: wife

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 (Tweet), 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 Tweet	punct
2	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sang	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tweet	punct
4	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tweet	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tweet	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tweet	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sang	nsubj
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sang	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Tweet and tweet		wife				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=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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