The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 1
'It is hardly worth doing that,' answered Jack; 'for I picked up the pieces and ate them myself.'
Who acts: It, I · What happens: be, do, answer, pick up, eat · To what, where: that, Jack, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 worth | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | cop |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 worth | advmod |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 worth | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 doing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | parataxis |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 picked | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 picked | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 picked | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 picked | nsubj |
| 16 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 picked | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pieces | det |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 picked | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ate | cc |
| 21 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 picked | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ate | obj |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 21 ate | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | hardly, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Jack | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jack=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pick up | past | I | the pieces | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||||
| 5 | eat | past | I not said here | pieces = piece | myself obl:unmarked | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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