The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 100

The lad replied that he liked it very well; he had never been able to go over the ground so quickly before.

Who acts: lad · What happens: reply, like, not be, go · To what, where: word, ground

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 liked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 liked	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 able	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 able	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 able	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 replied	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 quickly	advmod
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
23	before	before	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the lad				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	like	past	lad	word		well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	not is	past · perfect	lad			able property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	lad not said here		the ground	before, quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over ground=Initial_Location

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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