The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 114

But, quick though he was, Gudu had been quicker still, and nothing remained but some drops of water.

Who acts: Gudu, nothing · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu, nothing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 remained	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct
3	quick	quick	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 remained	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 still	punct
8	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 still	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 still	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 still	cop
11	quicker	quicker	ADV	_	12 still	advmod
12	still	still	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remained	cc
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 remained	nsubj
16	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 drops	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 drops	det
19	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remained	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drops	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Gudu					quicker, still property	tree rules
2	is	past	nothing					remain property	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 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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