The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 74
And the wolves replied: 'Very good, you may have your dance; perhaps it may amuse us as well as you.'
Who acts: wolves, you, dance, your · What happens: reply, have, amuse, dance · To what, where: dance, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wolves, you, dance, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolves | det |
| 3 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 7 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 good | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 amuse | punct |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 amuse | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 amuse | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 amuse | aux |
| 19 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 amuse | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 amuse | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 as | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 amuse | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 amuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the wolves | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | may | you | your dance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | amuse | may | dance | us | perhaps property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | dance | your | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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