The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 23
'You didn't; at least I never got it,' said the other.
Who acts: You, I, other · What happens: not do, not get, say · To what, where: dinner, least · 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 (You, I, other), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 got | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not get | past | I | dinner | least | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at least=Asset | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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