The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 69

‘Here I am, close to you,’ was the reply.

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Here	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 close	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reply	det
13	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					here property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here		you				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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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