The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 98
'Yes we shall,' answered the elder; 'I know what to do.'
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, know, do · To what, where: elder · 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 (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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 shall | discourse |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shall | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shall | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 shall | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elder | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the elder | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent elder=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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