The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 119
'You don't seem to like your bargain,' said she; but the girl answered:
Who acts: You, witch, girl, your · What happens: not seem, like, say, answer, bargain · To what, where: bargain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, witch, girl, your), 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 seem | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seem | advmod |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 like | mark |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 answered | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | present · do-support | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | like | to-infinitive | You not said here | your bargain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bargain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bargain | your | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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