The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 100

And says the other, ‘I am the eldest.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 says	cc
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 other	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eldest	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 eldest	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 eldest	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eldest	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eldest	det
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 says	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the other					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic
2	is	present	I					eld property	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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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