The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 74
And the cat, when asked, agreed there was nothing she would hate so much.
Who acts: cat, nothing, duck · What happens: ask, agree, be, hate · 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 (cat, nothing, duck), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 agreed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 asked | advmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cat | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hate | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hate | aux |
| 14 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 hate | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | the cat | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hate | would | duck | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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