The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 51

'Of course,' answered the mouse, 'nothing is easier; but as the full moon is to-morrow night, and there is not much time, I had better begin at once.'

Who acts: nothing, I · What happens: answer, be, have, begin · To what, where: mouse, much time

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 (nothing, 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 answered	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 time	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 easier	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	cop
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 mouse	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 night	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 night	cc
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 moon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moon	det
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moon	amod
19	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 night	obl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 night	cop
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 night	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 night	compound
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 is	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 is	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 is	expl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 time	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 time	amod
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 time	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 had	xcomp
36	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 better	advcl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 begin	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the mouse			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality
2	is	present	nothing				easy property	tree rules
3	is	present				to morrow night	as the full moon	tree rules
4	is a	present		much time				tree rules
5	have	past	I				good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	begin	infinitive	I not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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