The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 103
'Yes, I think they are rather nice,' answered the jackal; 'I made them myself, though.'
Who acts: I, shoes · What happens: think, be, answer, make · To what, where: jackal, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shoes), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nice | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nice | cop |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 9 nice | advmod |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nice | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 nice | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nice | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jackal | det |
| 14 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 made | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 though | punct |
| 22 | though | though | ADV | _ | 18 made | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | 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 | present | shoes = shoe | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the jackal | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jackal=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | past | I | shoes = shoe | myself obl:unmarked; though property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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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