The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 25

‘That was no bad whisky neither,’ says Maurice, handing back the empty bottle.

Who acts: That, Maurice · What happens: be, say, hand back · To what, where: bad whisky, empty bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Maurice), 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 whisky	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 whisky	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 whisky	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 whisky	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whisky	amod
6	whisky	whisky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	ccomp
7	neither	neither	ADV	_	6 whisky	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whisky	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 whisky	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handing	punct
13	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 says	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 handing	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bottle	det
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bottle	amod
17	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	no bad whisky	neither property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Maurice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hand back	gerund	Maurice not said here	the empty bottle		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme

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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