The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 46
'The favour is mine,' answered the mouse. '
Who acts: favour, mine · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: mine, mouse
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 (favour, mine), 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 mine | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 favour | det |
| 3 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mine | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mine | cop |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the favour | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | mine | the mouse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouse=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/46/