The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 108

They asked him how he had managed to get out of the river, to which he replied:

Who acts: sheep, Simon · What happens: ask, manage, get out, reply · To what, where: Simon, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, Simon), 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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 managed	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 managed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 managed	aux
7	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 asked	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 managed	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 river	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 replied	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 replied	nsubj
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	sheep		Simon	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	manage	past · perfect	Simon			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get out	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	the river		tree rules
4	reply speech: assert	past	Simon			vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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