The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 30
'That is very unkind, as we have never done you any harm,' replied the fish. '
Who acts: That, we · What happens: be, not do, reply · To what, where: you, fish
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, we), 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 unkind | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 unkind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unkind | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unkind | advmod |
| 5 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 done | advmod |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 unkind | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 done | obj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 harm | det |
| 14 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unkind | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unkind | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 unkind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | unkind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | present · perfect | we | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | That not said here | the fish | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |
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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