The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 18
'Perhaps I did treat him rather badly,' she said to herself. '
Who acts: I, traitor · What happens: treat, say · To what, where: fox, traitor · 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 (I, traitor), 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 treat | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 treat | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 treat | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 treat | aux |
| 5 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 treat | obj |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 badly | advmod |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 treat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treat | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 treat | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past · do-support | I | fox | badly, perhaps property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | traitor | traitor | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=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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