The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 116

He was wonderfully brave when he was in the midst of his companions or at home with his brothers and sister, then he used often to say ‘One wolf is nothing, there ought to be at least four.’

Who acts: Walter, One wolf · What happens: be, use, say · To what, where: midst, nothing, four, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, One wolf), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 midst	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 midst	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 midst	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 midst	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 midst	det
10	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brave	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 companions	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 companions	nmod:poss
13	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 midst	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 home	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 companions	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 brothers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brothers	nmod:poss
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 home	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sister	cc
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brothers	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 used	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 used	nsubj
25	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	conj
26	often	often	ADV	_	25 used	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	advcl
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
30	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 wolf	nummod
31	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nothing	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 nothing	cop
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 say	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ought	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 ought	expl
36	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 nothing	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	41 four	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 four	cop
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 least	case
40	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 four	nmod
41	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 ought	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brave	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 brave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Walter				brave, wonderfully property	tree rules
2	is	past	Walter		the midst		of Walter's companions or home with Walter's brothers and sister	tree rules
3	use	past	Walter			then	often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Walter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	One wolf	nothing				tree rules
6	is a	to-infinitive	One wolf not said here	four	least			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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