The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 6

'But I have no knife,' answered the fox. '

Who acts: I · What happens: have, answer · To what, where: knife, fox

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), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	no knife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past			the fox				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality

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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