The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 3

‘I liked it very well,’ said the lad, ‘for never in all my days have I been able to rise so high.’

Who acts: I · What happens: like, say, be, rise · To what, where: raven, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	3 liked	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 liked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 have	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 days	det:predet
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 days	nmod:poss
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 able	aux
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 rise	mark
25	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 high	advmod
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rise	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	past	I	raven	well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the lad		tree rules
3	is	present · perfect			able property	tree rules
4	rise	to-infinitive			high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 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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