The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 103
'Is it safe to go on, think you?' asked the wolf in a whisper.
Who acts: it · What happens: be, go on, think, ask · To what, where: you, wolf, whisper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | _ | 4 safe | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 safe | csubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 think | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 safe | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 safe | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wolf | det |
| 15 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 whisper | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 whisper | det |
| 18 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | to-infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the wolf | a whisper | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient |
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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