The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 5

“I like being a lion very much,” he said to himself, and trotted gaily along the road.

Who acts: lion · What happens: like, be, say, trot · To what, where: lion, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lion	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 like	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	3 like	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trotted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trotted	cc
17	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	17 trotted	advmod
19	along	along	ADP	_	21 road	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 road	det
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trotted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	lion					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a in a quote	gerund		a lion				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	lion		lion			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	trot	past	lion not said here			the road	gaily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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