The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 125
'But you could never walk so far,' answered they. '
Who acts: you · What happens: not walk, answer · To what, where: pitcher
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. 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 walk | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 walk | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 walk | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 walk | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 walk | advmod |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 walk | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walk | parataxis |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk | could | you | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | pitcher | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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