The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 113
This reply was so unexpected that for some moments neither of the brothers made any answer.
Who acts: reply, moments · What happens: be, make · To what, where: answer
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 (reply, moments), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unexpected | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unexpected | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 unexpected | advmod |
| 5 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 moments | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 moments | det |
| 9 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj |
| 10 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 moments | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brothers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brothers | det |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 neither | nmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unexpected | advcl |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 answer | det |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unexpected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this reply | unexpected property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | some moments | any answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=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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