The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 32
“Yes, I think I could eat some wild honey,” answered she.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, eat, answer · To what, where: wild honey, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. 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 | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | aux |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 honey | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 honey | amod |
| 11 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | could | I | some wild honey | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | last | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=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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