The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 130
'I never talk gossip,' she said severely. '
Who acts: I, lark · What happens: not talk, say · To what, where: gossip · 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, lark), 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 talk | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 talk | advmod |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | parataxis |
| 10 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | present | I | gossip | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gossip=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lark | severely property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/130/