The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 71

“Certainly that old woman’s son is a clever magician!” cried he; “I never met anyone as clever as that.

Who acts: son, clever magician · What happens: be, cry, not meet · To what, where: clever magician, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, clever magician), 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	_	11 magician	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 that	advmod
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 woman	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 magician	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 magician	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 magician	det
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 magician	amod
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 magician	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 magician	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 met	advmod
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 met	obj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 clever	advmod
23	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 anyone	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 clever	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that old woman's son	a clever magician	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a clever magician		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not meet in a quote	past	a clever magician = magician	anyone	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent

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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