The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 120

There they are, good marble instead of flesh and blood,’ says he, pointing to two statues, one in one corner, and the other in the other corner of the room.

Who acts: princes · What happens: be, say, point · To what, where: marble, two statues · 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 (princes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 are	nsubj
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 marble	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marble	amod
6	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 are	nsubj
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 flesh	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marble	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blood	cc
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flesh	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pointing	punct
17	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 says	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 statues	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 statues	nummod
20	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pointing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 statues	appos
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 corner	nummod
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 other	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 other	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 corner	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 corner	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 corner	amod
33	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 other	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 room	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 room	det
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 corner	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	princes = prince			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		marble			tree rules
3	point	gerund			two statues		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to statue=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 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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