The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 53

So saying, she pointed languidly with one tiny foot at what the Prince had taken for a block of stone, but now he saw that it was a huge snail.

Who acts: best, Prince, Castle · What happens: say, point, take, see, be · To what, where: Prince, huge snail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (best, Prince, Castle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pointed	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pointed	nsubj
5	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	languidly	languidly	ADV	_	5 pointed	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 foot	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 foot	nummod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foot	amod
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pointed	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 foot	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 taken	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 what	acl:relcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 block	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 block	det
19	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stone	case
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 block	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 saw	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pointed	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 snail	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 snail	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 snail	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 snail	det
31	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 snail	amod
32	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	best = good not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	point	past	best = good			with one tiny foot; languidly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past · perfect · passive		the Prince		for a block of stone	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for block=Beneficiary
4	see	past	Prince		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	Castle	a huge snail			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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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