The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 119

'Well, I must take the cat with me,' answered the bird.

Who acts: I · What happens: take, answer · To what, where: cat, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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	_	6 take	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	must	I		the cat			with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cat=Destination
2	answer speech: assert	past			the bird				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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