The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 41
'Nor I,' answered the girl; 'fear nothing.'
Who acts: I · What happens: answer · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. 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 | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 2 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 3 I | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | compound |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | I | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=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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