The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 35

‘Here is the second idiot,’ said the lover to himself.

Who acts: second idiot, lover · What happens: be, say · To what, where: lover · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second idiot, lover), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 idiot	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 idiot	amod
6	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lover	det
11	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the second idiot					here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the lover		lover				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=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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