The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 32

'I thought it would be something much harder than that,' exclaimed the young man. '

Who acts: I, palace · What happens: think, be, exclaim · To what, where: something, young man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, palace), 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 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 something	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 something	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	cop
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 thought	ccomp
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 harder	advmod
9	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 something	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 harder	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 something	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exclaimed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 something	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	palace	something	hard property	tree rules
3	exclaim speech: express	past	palace not said here	the young man		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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