The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 74

He spoke but little, however, and all that he said about himself was that his name was Peter.

Who acts: man, name · What happens: speak, say, be, name · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, name), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 little	cc
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 said	det:predet
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 Peter	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Peter	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 Peter	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Peter	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Peter	cop
20	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man		however property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	man's name	Peter	about man	tree rules
4	name		man			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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