The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 26

‘Well, I will try it, anyway,’ replied the boy, and disappeared in the bushes.

Who acts: I · What happens: try, reply, disappear · To what, where: sort, boy, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 try	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 try	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anyway	punct
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 try	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disappeared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 disappeared	cc
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bushes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bushes	det
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 disappeared	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	future	I	sort		anyway property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	reply speech: assert	past		the boy			tree rules
3	disappear	past			the bushes		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/26/