The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 75
'Do not be cast down,' answered the fox, 'it is quite easy!
What happens: not cast down, answer, be · To what, where: 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: 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 cast | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 cast | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cast | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cast | aux:pass |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 easy | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 cast | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cast | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 easy | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 easy | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 easy | advmod |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cast down | infinitive · passive · do-support | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | easy property | tree rules |
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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