The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 9
'No; they are not used to travelling,' answered the bridegroom. '
What happens: not use, answer · To what, where: eyes, bridegroom
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: 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 used | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 used | det |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 used | advmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 travelling | case |
| 9 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bridegroom | det |
| 14 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | present · passive | eyes = eye | to travelling | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the bridegroom | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=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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