The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 42

‘They are here, master,’ said the birds, and so they were, and never had the young man seen anything so splendid.

Who acts: birds, master · What happens: be, say, not be, see · To what, where: birds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, master), 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	_	4 here	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 master	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 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 anything	amod
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 man	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 splendid	advmod
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 anything	amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	birds = bird		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	master	the birds		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
3	not is	past	birds = bird		have property	tree rules
4	see	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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