The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 120

And other boys and girls would say ‘Look, there goes brave Walter, who is brave enough to fight with four.’

Who acts: other boys · What happens: say, look, go, be, fight · To what, where: brave 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 (other boys), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 girls	cc
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boys	conj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Look	punct
9	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 goes	expl
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
13	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Walter	amod
14	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 goes	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brave	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 brave	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 brave	cop
18	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goes	advcl
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 brave	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fight	mark
21	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 brave	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 four	case
23	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 fight	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	other boys and girls				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	infinitive	other boys and girls not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	go	present		brave Walter	there		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walter=Theme
4	is	present				brave, enough property	tree rules
5	fight	to-infinitive				with four	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with four=Co-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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