The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 35
'I shall never see my grandson any more!' answered she. '
Who acts: I · What happens: not see, answer · To what, where: grandson, help
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 see | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | shall | I | my grandson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandson=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | help | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=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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