The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 8
'And how am I to come down?' inquired the wolf.
Who acts: I · What happens: come down, inquire · To what, where: wolf
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 | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 come | advmod |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inquired | parataxis |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | present | I | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the wolf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient |
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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