The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 132
'If you can bear it, of course I can,' answered the witch.
Who acts: you · What happens: bear, answer · To what, where: treatment, witch
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), 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 bear | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 bear | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 can | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 11 can | advmod |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 of | fixed |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 can | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear a condition, not said to happen | can | you | treatment | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the witch | tree rules |
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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