Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 35

"Cer-tain-ly," said the man; "that is, if the statue were of the right length and height."

Who acts: tain ly, that · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tain ly, that), 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	_	6 ly	punct
2	Cer	cer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tain	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Cer	punct
4	tain	tain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ly	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tain	punct
6	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ly	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ly	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 length	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 length	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 length	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 length	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 length	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 statue	det
19	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 length	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 length	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 length	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 length	det
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 length	amod
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 height	cc
26	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 length	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 length	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 length	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	tain ly						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that					of the right length and height	tree rules

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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