The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 67
“Oh, that never affects them,” answered the fox lightly; “he is rich enough to do anything.
Who acts: that, fox · What happens: not affect, answer, be, do · To what, where: pears, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, fox), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 affects | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 affects | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 affects | advmod |
| 6 | affects | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Oh | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 affects | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rich | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 rich | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rich | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rich | cop |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | conj |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 rich | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rich | xcomp |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not affect in a quote | present | that | pears = pear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | lightly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | fox | enough, rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | fox not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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