The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 15
'The cheese?' answered the fox; 'why I am taking it home to my babies, who are too young to get food for themselves.'
Who acts: cheese, I, babies · What happens: answer, take, be, get · To what, where: fox, parapet, babies, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheese, I, babies), 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 | _ | 3 cheese | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cheese | det |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheese | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheese | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 taking | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 taking | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taking | aux |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taking | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 taking | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 babies | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 babies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 young | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 young | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 young | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 young | advmod |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 babies | amod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 young | advcl |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 themselves | case |
| 29 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the cheese | the fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · progressive | I | parapet | my babies | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to baby=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | present | my babies | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | my babies not said here | food | for babies = baby | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme for themselves=Source |
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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