The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 23
'That I will gladly,' answered Ian breaking off a large bit.
What happens: answer, break off · To what, where: Ian, large bit
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 will | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | aux |
| 5 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 will | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 breaking | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bit | amod |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaking | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | future | Ian | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ian=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | break off | gerund | a large bit | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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