The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 88
'You are cleverer than I expected,' answered she; 'or else someone helped you who is skilled in magic.'
Who acts: You, I, someone · What happens: be, expect, answer, help, skill · To what, where: woman, you, magic
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 (You, I, someone), 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 | _ | 4 cleverer | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cleverer | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleverer | cop |
| 4 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 expected | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 expected | nsubj |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleverer | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleverer | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleverer | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleverer | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 helped | cc |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 helped | advmod |
| 16 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleverer | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 helped | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 skilled | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 skilled | aux:pass |
| 21 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 helped | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 magic | case |
| 23 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skilled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleverer | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleverer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | past | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | You not said here | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help | past | someone | you | else property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | skill | present · passive | magic | tree rules |
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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