The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

'Quite well as regards my health,' answered the wolf, whose eye glistened greedily, 'at least, as well as one can be when one is very hungry.

Who acts: regards, one · What happens: answer, glisten, be · To what, where: wolf, eye

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 (regards, one), 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 regards	punct
2	Quite	quite	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 regards	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 regards	case
5	regards	regards	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 answered	nsubj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 health	nmod:poss
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regards	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 regards	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 regards	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eye	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 eye	nmod:poss
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wolf	appos
16	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 eye	acl
17	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	16 glistened	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 least	case
21	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	26 one	cc
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	as	as	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 answered	conj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hungry	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 hungry	cop
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 hungry	mark
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 hungry	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hungry	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 hungry	advmod
33	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	regards	the wolf		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	glisten	participle		the wolf's eye not said here	greedily property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	can	one		hungry property	tree rules

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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