The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 83
'In this world the cleverest people are always the hungriest,' replied the wolf.
Who acts: cleverest people, hungriest · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: world, 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 (cleverest people, hungriest), 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 | _ | 11 hungriest | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 world | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hungriest | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 6 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hungriest | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hungriest | cop |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 hungriest | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hungriest | det |
| 11 | hungriest | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hungriest | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hungriest | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolf | det |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the cleverest people | this world | always, hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the hungriest | the wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
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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