The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 7

“Look at it, then,” said the first.

What happens: look, say · To what, where: first · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 first	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 said	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive					then	at quarrel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the first					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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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