The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
'I have been ill--very ill,' replied the fox, 'and what you say is quite true.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, reply, say · To what, where: fox · 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 (I, you), 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 ill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ill | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 ill | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 ill | advmod |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ill | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 true | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 true | nsubj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 true | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 true | advmod |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 replied | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | true 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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