The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 147

My father is roasting young chickens to-day!’ said the Princess.

Who acts: father, Princess · What happens: roast, say · To what, where: young chickens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Princess), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roasting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roasting	aux
4	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chickens	amod
6	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roasting	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 to	punct
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chickens	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 roasting	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 roasting	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	present · progressive	My father	young chickens			to day		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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