The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 21

Surely no deer ever ran so swiftly as that one!

Who acts: deer · What happens: run

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 deer	det
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 swiftly	advmod
7	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	no deer				ever	as that one; surely, swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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