The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 72
'Very well,' answered Jack, 'you can take it back with you.
Who acts: you · What happens: answer, take back · To what, where: Jack, request
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 (you), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jack | well property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jack=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take back | can | you | request | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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