The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 118

Indeed, some thought that the brave boy boasted a little; but one must indeed believe him since he said so himself.

Who acts: some, brave boy, one, boy · What happens: think, boast, believe, say · To what, where: little, boy, Walter · 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 (some, brave boy, one, boy), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 boasted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boasted	nsubj
9	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boasted	obl:unmarked
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 believe	cc
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 believe	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	aux
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 believe	advmod
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 believe	obj
19	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 himself	advmod
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 said	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	some		indeed property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	boast speech: other	past	the brave boy	a little		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	believe	must	one	boy	indeed property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	boy	Walter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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