The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 79
'Just a little too short, bailiff; next time you must do better than that.'
Who acts: you · What happens: do
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 (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 short | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 short | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 short | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 short | advmod |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bailiff | punct |
| 8 | bailiff | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 short | vocative |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 short | parataxis |
| 15 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 better | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 short | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | you | time | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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