The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 11
And the son answered: 'Show me the way and I will get them for dinner.'
Who acts: son, I · What happens: answer, show, get · To what, where: way, me, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Show | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Show | punct |
| 7 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Show | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Show | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Show | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 dinner | case |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Show | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | infinitive | the way | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | future | I | tears = tear | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Source |
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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