The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 17
'Of course not,' answered the city lady, with some contempt for their stupidity. '
What happens: not answer · To what, where: city lady
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 not | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lady | compound |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 contempt | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 contempt | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 contempt | det |
| 14 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 stupidity | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stupidity | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contempt | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past | the city lady | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality |
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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