The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 56
“Oh, I am quite willing,” answered the rabbit, proud of being spoken to by such a large creature.
Who acts: rabbit, large creature · What happens: be, answer, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, large creature), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 willing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 willing | advmod |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rabbit | det |
| 12 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proud | punct |
| 14 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rabbit | amod |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 spoken | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 spoken | aux:pass |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 proud | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 spoken | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 creature | case |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 creature | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 creature | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 23 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoken | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the rabbit = rabbit | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the rabbit | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund · passive | such large creature | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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