The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 42

'I am rich enough already,' she answered, 'but I am often dull, and I think you may amuse me a little.'

Who acts: I, Madam, you · What happens: be, answer, think, amuse · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Madam, 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	_	4 rich	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
6	already	already	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 dull	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 dull	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dull	cop
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 dull	advmod
17	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 amuse	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 amuse	aux
24	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 amuse	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 amuse	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		enough, rich property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Madam			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		dull, often property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	amuse	may	you	me	a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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