The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 17
'Yes, that is a good plan,' answered the hedgehog.
Who acts: that, good plan · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: good plan, hedgehog
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, good plan), 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 | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 plan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 plan | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plan | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plan | amod |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hedgehog | det |
| 13 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a good plan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a good plan | the hedgehog | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Eventuality |
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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