The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 92

She led him into a large hall filled with stone statues, which once had been men, and, pointing out one, she said, ‘There is your brother.’

Who acts: witch, stone statues, brother · What happens: lead, fill, be, point out, say · To what, where: wretch, large hall, men, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, stone statues, brother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
8	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hall	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 statues	case
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 statues	compound
11	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 men	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 men	nsubj
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 men	advmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 men	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 men	cop
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 statues	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pointing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pointing	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pointing	punct
21	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 led	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 pointing	compound:prt
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pointing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
29	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brother	nmod:poss
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	witch	wretch	a large hall		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination
2	fill	participle		a large hall not said here		with stone statues and men	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with statue=Instrument
3	is a	past · perfect	stone statues and men	men		once property	tree rules
4	point out	gerund	witch not said here	one			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	witch				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be	present	your brother		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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