The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 2
'It is very unfortunate, certainly,' answered he; 'but I think I know where you can find him.
Who acts: It, I, you · What happens: be, answer, think, know, find · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, I, you), 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 unfortunate | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfortunate | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unfortunate | advmod |
| 5 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfortunate | parataxis |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 think | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfortunate | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | ccomp |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 find | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | unfortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | man | certainly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find | can | you | man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
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