The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 110

“Capital,” he said, “only a little quicker.”

Who acts: other · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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	_	2 Capital	punct
2	Capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Capital	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Capital	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 quicker	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 quicker	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 quicker	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quicker	amod
12	quicker	quicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 quicker	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 quicker	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	other						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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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