The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 125
'And now, unbeliever, what have you to say?' and the fox laughed gently.
Who acts: you, fox · What happens: say, laugh · 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 (you, fox), 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 | ' | ' | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 say | vocative |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 unbeliever | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 unbeliever | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unbeliever | punct |
| 5 | unbeliever | unbeliever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ' | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ' | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 say | obj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laughed | nsubj |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | conj |
| 18 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 17 laughed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | ' and unbeliever vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the fox | gently property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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