The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 65
'I hope not, your majesty; I think not,' answered the youth.
Who acts: I · What happens: not hope, not think, answer · To what, where: majesty, youth
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hope | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hope | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | parataxis |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 think | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hope | present | I | your majesty | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | I not said here | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality |
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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