The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 9
'Counsel unsought is worth nothing,' replied, rudely, Ardan son of Gorla. '
Who acts: Counsel · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counsel), 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 | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | unsought | unsought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Counsel | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | cop |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nothing | amod |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nothing | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rudely | punct |
| 11 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | Ardan | Ardan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | compound |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gorla | case |
| 16 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Counsel | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | rudely property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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