The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 63
'Keep it, to be sure!' replied the old woman briskly. '
What happens: keep, be, reply · To what, where: purr, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. 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 | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Keep | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sure | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | cop |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Keep | advcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 14 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | infinitive | purr | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the old woman | 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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