The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 102

And I answered: "Makoma, the greatest of heroes."

Who acts: I · What happens: answer · To what, where: Makoma

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Makoma	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Makoma	punct
6	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 greatest	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 greatest	det
9	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Makoma	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 heroes	case
11	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 greatest	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Makoma	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Makoma	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	I		Makoma				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent makoma=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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