The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 71
'No, I did not, and therefore am I here,' answered Ian, bowing his head.
Who acts: I · What happens: not do, be, answer, bow · To what, where: Ian, head
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: 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 | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 here | cc |
| 9 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 here | advmod |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 here | nsubj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 did | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | parataxis |
| 16 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bowing | punct |
| 18 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 answered | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bowing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | here, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Ian | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ian=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | bow | gerund | accident's head | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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