The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 9
'A buffalo--yes; but the servant of your wife!
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: 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 | _ | 3 buffalo | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 buffalo | det |
| 3 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 yes | punct |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 buffalo | discourse |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 servant | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 servant | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servant | det |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buffalo | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 servant | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 buffalo | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/9/