The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 3
‘“Indeed,” answered the donkey, “it is most kind of you to take the trouble.
Who acts: donkey, business · What happens: answer, be, take · To what, where: most kind, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey, business), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 3 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Indeed | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Indeed | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 donkey | det |
| 8 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kind | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kind | cop |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 kind | amod |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 donkey | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 kind | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 kind | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trouble | det |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the donkey | indeed property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | business | most kind | of you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | the donkey not said here | the trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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