The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 112

‘Very well,’ said the dream-boy with the white coat, ‘it is only a little way to Polynesia’--and then they were there.

Who acts: coat, buffaloes · What happens: say, be · To what, where: dream boy, little way, Polynesia · 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 (coat, buffaloes), 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 coat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coat	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coat	amod
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 way	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Polynesia	case
24	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	nmod
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 there	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 there	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 there	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 there	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 there	cop
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	parataxis
32	.	.	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 white coat; well property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent boy=Theme with coat=Manner
2	is a	present	coat	a little way	Polynesia			tree rules
3	is	past	buffaloes = buffalo			then	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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