The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 96

'Certainly, father; how can you suppose I should do them wrong?' replied Martin indignantly, helping himself to all the best bits in the dish as he spoke.

Who acts: you, I, father, Martin · What happens: suppose, do, reply, help, speak · To what, where: father, Martin · 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, father, Martin), 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 father	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 father	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 suppose	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 suppose	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 suppose	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 suppose	nsubj
9	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 father	appos
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 suppose	ccomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 do	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 suppose	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 suppose	punct
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 replied	nsubj
19	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	_	17 replied	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 helping	punct
21	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 replied	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 helping	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 bits	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 bits	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bits	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 bits	amod
27	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 helping	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 dish	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dish	det
30	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bits	nmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 spoke	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spoke	nsubj
33	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 helping	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	can	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	should	I	father		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	reply speech: assert	past	father		indignantly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	gerund	father not said here	Martin	to all best bits in the dish	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
5	speak speech: other	past	Martin			vn talk-37.5 «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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