The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 56
'My good or evil fortune,' replied the boy, 'I know not which.'
Who acts: good fortune, I · What happens: reply, not know · To what, where: boy
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: who acts (good fortune, 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortune | amod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 evil | cc |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 good | conj |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 know | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My good fortune | the boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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