The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 5

‘Behold, here they come,’ said the bishop.

Who acts: they, bishop · What happens: come, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, bishop), 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	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 here	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Behold	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	parataxis
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 here	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 bishop	det
11	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the bishop						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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