The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 112
'But I could not jump this river; and I don't know how you did,' replied the Stalo.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not jump, not know, do, reply · To what, where: river, Stalo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 jump | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 jump | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 jump | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 jump | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 jump | advmod |
| 6 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 replied | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jump | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 jump | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 did | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Stalo | det |
| 22 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 replied | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not jump | could | I | this river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the Stalo | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stalo=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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