The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 102

‘Very well,’ said the dream-boy with the red cap and the silver band; ‘it is not far to America’--and at the same moment they were there.

Who acts: band, dogs · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: dream boy, America · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band, dogs), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
8	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 dream	punct
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 cap	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cap	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cap	amod
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 band	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 band	det
17	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 band	amod
18	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cap	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 far	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 far	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 far	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 far	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 America	case
26	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 far	obl
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 far	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 there	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 there	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 moment	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 moment	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 moment	amod
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 there	obl
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 there	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 there	cop
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the dream boy			with the red cap and the silver band; well property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent boy=Theme with cap=Manner
2	not is	present	band		America		far property	tree rules
3	is	past	dogs = dog			moment	there property	tree rules

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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