The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 66
'Very good,' replied the witch, with something that she meant for a smile, 'but to-day it is late.
Who acts: smile · What happens: reply, mean, be · To what, where: witch
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 (smile), 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 | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 something | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 replied | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 meant | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meant | nsubj |
| 14 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 smile | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meant | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meant | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 meant | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 late | cc |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 late | obl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 late | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 late | cop |
| 26 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meant | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the witch | with something | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | for a smile | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for smile=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | present | smile | day | late property | 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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