The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 6

‘How do I look in this new suit?’ says he, getting to one side of her.

Who acts: I · What happens: look, say, get · To what, where: Man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 look	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 suit	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 suit	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 suit	amod
9	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 getting	punct
15	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 says	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 side	nummod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 getting	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 side	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	I		in this new suit	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in suit=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		Man		tree rules
3	get	gerund			to one side of nurse result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result

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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