The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 74
'I am very sorry,' said the king to Jose, 'I really would rather not; but you see I have no choice.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, say, see, have · To what, where: king, Jose, choice · 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, 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 | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Jose | case |
| 12 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 would | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 would | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 would | nsubj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 would | advmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 not | advmod |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 would | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | parataxis |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | ccomp |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 choice | det |
| 27 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | the king | Jose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to jose=Recipient | |||
| 3 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |
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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