The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 71
'You are right,' answered the grandfather; 'your wisdom is greater than ours.'
Who acts: You, wisdom · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: grandfather
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 (You, wisdom), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grandfather | det |
| 9 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 greater | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 greater | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 greater | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 greater | cop |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 right | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 ours | case |
| 17 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 greater | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the grandfather | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your wisdom | than ours; great 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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