The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 30
'No, no,' said the bride; 'I can look after him as well as you.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, look · To what, where: bride · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 look | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 look | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 14 look | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | can | I | after life | as you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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