The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 132
'Of course I will go down, with the greatest pleasure,' answered the fox, who had expected the wolf's reply.
Who acts: I, greatest pleasure, wolf · What happens: go down, answer, expect, reply · To what, where: fox
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 (I, greatest pleasure, wolf), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 go | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pleasure | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pleasure | det |
| 11 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 pleasure | amod |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | parataxis |
| 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 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 expected | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 expected | aux |
| 21 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fox | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wolf | det |
| 23 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reply | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 wolf | case |
| 25 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 expected | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | future | I | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the greatest pleasure not said here | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | expect | past · perfect · passive | the fox | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme reply=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | reply | the wolf | nom reply «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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