The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 43
'Yes, I think that must be it,' said the fish with joy.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: think, be, say · To what, where: tunny, fish · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 it | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 it | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fish | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | that | tunny | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | the fish | with joy | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent fish=Theme with joy=Manner |
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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