The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 45
'I thought as much,' said the old woman angrily; 'she that is useless in one thing is useless in another.'
Who acts: I, old woman, woman, useless · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: much, one thing, another · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old woman, woman, useless), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 useless | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 useless | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 useless | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 useless | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 useless | cop |
| 18 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 useless | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 thing | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 thing | nummod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 useless | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 useless | cop |
| 23 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 useless | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | much | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | woman | one thing | useless property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | useless | another | useless property | 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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