The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 29
'I can't stop and talk; I am in a hurry,' answered the girl. '
Who acts: I · What happens: not stop, talk, be, answer · To what, where: hurry, girl
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. 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 | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hurry | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 talk | cc |
| 7 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hurry | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurry | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hurry | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hurry | det |
| 13 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurry | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurry | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | can | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | infinitive | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | a hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | 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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