The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 20

'For ME?' answered the sheep, in an astonished voice; 'but we have never met before!'

Who acts: we · What happens: answer, not meet · To what, where: sheep, astonished voice

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 (we), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	3 ME	case
3	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obl
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ME	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 ME	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 voice	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 voice	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 voice	det
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 met	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 met	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 met	advmod
20	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 answered	conj
21	before	before	ADV	_	20 met	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the sheep	a astonished voice		for ME	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sheep=Eventuality
2	not meet	present · perfect	we					before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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