The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 34
'I will certainly try,' answered the fish in a great hurry; 'but you must have a little patience, as it may not be an easy task.'
Who acts: I, you, fish · What happens: try, answer, have, not be · To what, where: fish, great hurry, little patience, easy task
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 (I, you, fish), 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 try | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 try | advmod |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hurry | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hurry | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hurry | amod |
| 14 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 patience | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 patience | amod |
| 23 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 task | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 task | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 task | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 task | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 task | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 task | cop |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 task | det |
| 31 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 task | amod |
| 32 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | future | I | certainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fish | a great hurry | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | must | you | a little patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is a | may | fish | a easy task | 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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