The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 33

They answered that they would rather stay above-ground, as there would be no room for so many of them down in the well.

Who acts: men · What happens: answer, stay, be · To what, where: ground, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 stay	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	ccomp
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 above	punct
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 room	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 be	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 be	expl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 room	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 many	case
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 room	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 many	nmod
23	down	down	ADP	_	20 many	compound:prt
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 well	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 well	det
26	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 many	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	men = man			tree rules
2	stay	would	men = man		ground	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ground=Location
3	is a	infinitive		no room		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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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