The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 51

As you say, he is so good and clever.

Who acts: you, boy · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 say	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 good	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clever	cc
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 good	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	boy	good property	tree rules
3	be		boy not said here		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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