The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 9

Next she inquired whither he was going, and this time he made reply that he was going on before him, but that he was thirsty and would like a drink.

Who acts: raven, Ian · What happens: inquire, go, reply, go on, be, like · To what, where: drink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, Ian), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 inquired	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 inquired	nsubj
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	7 going	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 inquired	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reply	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reply	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reply	obl:unmarked
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reply	nsubj
13	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reply	aux
14	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 inquired	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reply	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 going	compound:prt
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thirsty	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 thirsty	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 thirsty	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thirsty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thirsty	cop
27	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inquired	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 like	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thirsty	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drink	det
32	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 like	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	raven			next property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	Ian			whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	may	Ian		time		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go on	past · progressive	Ian		before him = he		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
5	is	past	Ian			thirsty property	tree rules
6	like	would	Ian not said here	a drink			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=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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