The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 6
'The creature who has that chain round his neck, need not fear a hundred enemies,' answered the armourer.
Who acts: creature · What happens: have, not fear, answer · To what, where: chain, hundred enemies, armourer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature), 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 | _ | 14 fear | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fear | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 creature | acl:relcl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 chain | det |
| 7 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 12 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fear | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fear | advmod |
| 14 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 enemies | nummod |
| 17 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fear | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fear | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 fear | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 armourer | det |
| 22 | armourer | armourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the creature | that chain | round creature's neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | |||
| 2 | not fear | present | the creature | hundred enemies | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the armourer | 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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