The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 77
'But, mother,' answered the girl, 'how can I find the well in this darkness?
Who acts: mother, I · What happens: answer, find · To what, where: girl, well, darkness
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 (mother, I), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 answered | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 find | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 well | det |
| 17 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 darkness | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 darkness | det |
| 20 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | can | I | the well | this darkness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/77/