The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 22
'Well, it is very tiresome, but I suppose I must wait,' replied the jackal.
Who acts: distance, I · What happens: be, suppose, wait, reply · To what, where: jackal · 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 (distance, 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 tiresome | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 tiresome | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tiresome | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tiresome | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 tiresome | advmod |
| 7 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suppose | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 suppose | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 suppose | nsubj |
| 11 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tiresome | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wait | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wait | aux |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 suppose | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 suppose | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 jackal | det |
| 19 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiresome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | distance | tiresome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait | must | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | I not said here | the jackal | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jackal=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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