The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 126
'That you are a woman--I mean a fox--of your word,' replied the wolf.
Who acts: That, I, word, your · What happens: be, mean, reply, word · To what, where: woman, fox, wolf
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 (That, I, word, your), 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 | _ | 6 woman | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 word | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 word | nmod:poss |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wolf | det |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | I | a fox | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | your word not said here | the wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 4 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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