The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 12
'No; I did not know it,' replied the husband in surprise. '
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, reply · To what, where: buffalo, husband, surprise
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. 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 know | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 husband | det |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 husband | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | buffalo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | I not said here | the husband | surprise | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic |
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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