The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
'Oh, we shall be delighted,' answered the rat, much relieved. '
Who acts: we, rat · What happens: be, answer
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 (we, rat), 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 | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 delighted | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rat | det |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 relieved | punct |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 relieved | advmod |
| 15 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 delighted | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | we | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the rat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | we not said here | 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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