The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 110
'Another time perhaps you won't be so lazy, and will bring food for yourself,' said Martin, but to his surprise Jack answered:
Who acts: you, Martin, Jack · What happens: not be, bring, say, answer, surprise · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Martin, Jack), 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 | _ | 10 lazy | punct |
| 2 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lazy | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lazy | nsubj |
| 6 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lazy | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 lazy | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lazy | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 lazy | advmod |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 lazy | parataxis |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 yourself | case |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 bring | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 lazy | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 answered | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 answered | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 surprise | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 26 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 answered | obl |
| 27 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 answered | nsubj |
| 28 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | parataxis |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | you | time | lazy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | future | food | for yourself | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Martin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Jack | to Martin's surprise | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to surprise=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | surprise | Martin | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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