The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 28
'That doesn't matter at all to me,' answered the cat. '
Who acts: That · What happens: not matter, answer · To what, where: me, all, cat
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 matter | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 matter | advmod |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 matter | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | That | me | all | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to i=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the cat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cat=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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