The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 88

‘And quite enough too,’ answered the boy.

What happens: answer · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 enough	cc
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 enough	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 enough	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the boy			enough property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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