The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 3

'Why, we may want them ourselves!' answered he.

Who acts: we · What happens: want, answer · To what, where: ants, he · 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 (we), 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 want	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 want	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	may	we	ants = ant					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme ourselves=Attribute
2	answer speech: assert	past			he				tree rules

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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