The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 58
Jack thought for a moment; then he replied: 'Very well, I will exchange with you.'
Who acts: Jack, I · What happens: think, reply, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jack, 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 replied | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 exchange | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 12 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 exchange | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 exchange | aux |
| 17 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 exchange | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 exchange | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 exchange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Jack | moment | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Jack | then | well property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | exchange | future | I | with you | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-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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