The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 58

'There!' answered Lyma, pointing to the flames.

What happens: answer, point · To what, where: Lyma, flames

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 answered	expl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Lyma	Lyma	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pointing	punct
8	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 flames	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flames	det
11	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pointing	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			Lyma	there			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lyma=Eventuality
2	point	gerund			the flames				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to flame=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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