The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 54

It was what he had liked best of all, said the youth, and that was no lie, as everybody can guess.

Who acts: sea, troll, that, everybody · What happens: be, like, say, guess · To what, where: best, youth, lie · 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 (sea, troll, that, everybody), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 what	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 said	nsubj:outer
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 liked	aux
6	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 what	acl:relcl
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 liked	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 best	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lie	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lie	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 lie	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lie	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 lie	det
19	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guess	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 guess	mark
22	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 guess	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 guess	aux
24	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lie	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	sea		tree rules
2	like	past · perfect	troll	best of all	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the youth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
4	is a	past	that	no lie	tree rules
5	guess	can	everybody		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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 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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