The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 2
'As if I knew anything about husbands!' replied Desiree, who had long ago guessed the business of the ambassador.
Who acts: I, Desiree · What happens: know, reply, have, guess · To what, where: anything, business
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Desiree), 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 | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 knew | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 husbands | case |
| 8 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 anything | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Desiree | Desiree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Desiree | acl:relcl |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 ago | advmod |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 guessed | advmod |
| 18 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 business | det |
| 20 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guessed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ambassador | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ambassador | det |
| 23 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 business | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | I | anything | about husbands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Desiree | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Desiree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | guess | past | Desiree not said here | the business of the ambassador | ago property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
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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