The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 80
The man then repeated his words louder; but still there was no reply.
Who acts: man · What happens: repeat, be, word · To what, where: words, reply
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 (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 repeated | advmod |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 repeated | obj |
| 7 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 words | amod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 reply | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 was | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reply | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 reply | det |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | the man | man's words | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | past | no reply | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | word | man | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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