The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 7
"Nay!" answered the man, "'twas a thoughtless speech, and a sad mistake; but I shall now be on my guard, and shall do better next time."
Who acts: man, guard · What happens: answer, be, do · To what, where: guard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, guard), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twas | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 twas | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 twas | punct |
| 11 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 man | appos |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 speech | det |
| 13 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 speech | amod |
| 14 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twas | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mistake | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mistake | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mistake | det |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mistake | amod |
| 19 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speech | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 guard | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 guard | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 guard | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 guard | aux |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 guard | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 guard | cop |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 guard | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 guard | nmod:poss |
| 28 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 do | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 do | cc |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | aux |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 guard | acl:relcl |
| 33 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 do | advmod |
| 34 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 do | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | the man = man | my guard | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | my guard not said here | time | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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