The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 126

One by one they came; tall and short, dark and fair, plump and thin, and each said ‘I am she whom you want.

Who acts: others, I, you · What happens: come, say, be, want · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, I, you), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tall	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 one	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 short	cc
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fair	cc
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plump	punct
15	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thin	cc
17	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 said	obj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	conj
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 whom	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 whom	cop
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 whom	nsubj
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 said	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 whom	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	others = other		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		each	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent each=Topic
3	is a	present	I		tree rules
4	want	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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