The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 30

‘Your painters must indeed be diligent,’ she said, pointing out the last picture to the Prince.

Who acts: painters, Percinet · What happens: be, say, point out · To what, where: last picture, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painters, Percinet), 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	_	7 diligent	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 painters	nmod:poss
3	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 diligent	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 diligent	aux
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 diligent	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 diligent	cop
7	diligent	diligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 diligent	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 diligent	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pointing	punct
13	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 pointing	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 picture	det
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 picture	amod
17	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pointing	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Prince	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 picture	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	Your painters			diligent, indeed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Percinet				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	point out	gerund	Percinet not said here	the last picture	the Prince		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Theme to prince=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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