The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 88
'Quite so,' replied the fox; 'it would be unreasonable of me to object to your satisfying your appetite at my expense.
Who acts: charity · What happens: reply, be, satisfy · To what, where: fox, appetite
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 (charity), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 unreasonable | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 unreasonable | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 unreasonable | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 unreasonable | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unreasonable | cop |
| 14 | unreasonable | unreasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 unreasonable | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 object | mark |
| 18 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unreasonable | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 expense | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 expense | nmod:poss |
| 21 | satisfying | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 expense | csubj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 23 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 satisfying | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 expense | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 expense | nmod:poss |
| 26 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unreasonable | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | would | charity | of me; to your expense; unreasonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | gerund | your appetite | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appetite=Experiencer |
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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