The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 25
'You are very kind, I am sure,' answered the sheep, not knowing which way to look. '
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, answer, not know, look · To what, where: sheep, way
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, 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 | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 kind | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 knowing | advmod |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 answered | advcl |
| 18 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knowing | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 look | mark |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 way | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the sheep | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sheep=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not know | gerund | which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | which way not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/19/25/