The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 95

He never could tell afterwards exactly how he had spent the rest of the winter.

Who acts: fortune · What happens: not tell, spend · To what, where: rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tell	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 spent	advmod
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 spent	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spent	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spent	aux
10	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tell	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spent	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 winter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 winter	det
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	fortune					afterwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spend	past · perfect	fortune	the rest of the winter				exactly property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset

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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