The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 28

‘It is,’ said Sir Red, ‘the most beautiful coverlet that any mortal ever heard tell of.

Who acts: lamp, Red, mortal · What happens: be, say, hear · To what, where: beautiful coverlet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, Red, mortal), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Red	nmod:desc
8	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coverlet	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 coverlet	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coverlet	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coverlet	amod
14	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Red	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 heard	obj
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 mortal	det
17	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 heard	advmod
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 coverlet	acl:relcl
20	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 tell	fixed
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	be	present	lamp			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Red Sir			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	past	any mortal	the beautiful coverlet	ever	tree rules

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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