The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 124

'Very well indeed, I am glad to say.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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	_	8 glad	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 indeed	advmod
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 glad	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glad	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 glad	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 glad	cop
8	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 glad	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					glad, indeed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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