The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 73

‘You are very clever,’ said the reindeer.

Who acts: You · What happens: be, say · To what, where: reindeer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reindeer	det
10	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					clever property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the reindeer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reindeer=Topic

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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