The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 78
'You have got the better of me,' answered the sheep; 'and I suppose I must confess myself beaten!
Who acts: You, I · What happens: get, answer, suppose, confess, beat · To what, where: sheep, myself · 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, 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 | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 better | det |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sheep | det |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 suppose | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 suppose | nsubj |
| 18 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 confess | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 confess | aux |
| 21 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 suppose | ccomp |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 confess | obj |
| 23 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 confess | xcomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | You | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the sheep | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sheep=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | confess | must | I | myself | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | beat | participle | I not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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