The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 87

“Oh, certainly,” said Ball-Carrier; and I don’t think we shall find a flatter course than the prairie itself—no one knows how many miles it stretches.

Who acts: Ball, I, we, one, course · What happens: say, not think, find, know, stretch · To what, where: flatter course, many miles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ball, I, we, one), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Carrier	punct
10	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ball	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 think	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 think	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 think	advmod
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 think	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 course	det
21	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 course	amod
22	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 prairie	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 prairie	det
25	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obl
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 prairie	nmod:unmarked
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knows	nsubj
30	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 miles	amod
33	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 knows	obj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stretches	nsubj
35	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 miles	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ball and Carrier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find	shall	we	a flatter course	than the prairie prairie	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
4	know	present	no one	many miles		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mile=Stimulus
5	stretch	present	course	many miles not said here		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mile=Patient

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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