The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 23

I am no sooner up than down,’ answered he.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: sun

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sooner	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sooner	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sooner	det
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 answered	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 sooner	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 down	case
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 up	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sooner	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sooner	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					soon property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			sun				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=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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