The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 72
'I don't think I should enjoy it,' replied the hen doubtfully. '
Who acts: I · What happens: not think, enjoy, reply · To what, where: water, hen · 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: 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 enjoy | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 enjoy | aux |
| 8 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 enjoy | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hen | det |
| 14 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | doubtfully | doubtfully | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | should | I | water | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the hen | doubtfully property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hen=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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