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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 45

‘“Well, I don’t know,” replied the donkey gloomily, “the last time we went he scratched me very badly, and really I was quite afraid.”

Who acts: donkey, we, lion · What happens: not know, reply, go, scratch, be · To what, where: last time, donkey · 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, we, lion), 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

punctpunctdiscoursepunctnsubjauxadvmodccomppunctpunctdetobjadvmodpunctpunctdetamodobl:unmarkednsubjacl:relclnsubjconjobjadvmodadvmodpunctccadvmodnsubjcopadvmodparataxispunctpunctroot‘PUNCT“PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTIPRONdoAUXn’tPARTknowVERB,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETdonkeyNOUNgloomilyADV,PUNCT“PUNCTtheDETlastADJtimeNOUNwePRONwentVERBhePRONscratchedVERBmePRONveryADVbadlyADV,PUNCTandCCONJreallyADVIPRONwasAUXquiteADVafraidADJ.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_11 repliedpunct
2“"PUNCT_8 knowpunct
3WellwellINTJ_8 knowdiscourse
4,,PUNCT_3 Wellpunct
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 knownsubj
6dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 knowaux
7n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg8 knowadvmod
8knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf11 repliedccomp
9,,PUNCT_8 knowpunct
10”"PUNCT_8 knowpunct
11repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 donkeydet
13donkeydonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing11 repliedobj
14gloomilygloomilyADV_11 repliedadvmod
15,,PUNCT_23 scratchedpunct
16“"PUNCT_23 scratchedpunct
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 timedet
18lastlastADJDegree=Pos19 timeamod
19timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing23 scratchedobl:unmarked
20wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs21 wentnsubj
21wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 timeacl:relcl
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 scratchednsubj
23scratchedscratchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 repliedconj
24meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs23 scratchedobj
25veryveryADV_26 badlyadvmod
26badlybadlyADVDegree=Pos23 scratchedadvmod
27,,PUNCT_33 afraidpunct
28andandCCONJ_33 afraidcc
29reallyreallyADV_33 afraidadvmod
30IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs33 afraidnsubj
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 afraidcop
32quitequiteADV_33 afraidadvmod
33afraidafraidADJDegree=Pos11 repliedparataxis
34..PUNCT_33 afraidpunct
35”"PUNCT_11 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not know in a quotepresent · do-supportthe donkey = donkeyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2reply speech: assertpastthe donkeygloomily propertyvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3go in a quotepastwethe last time not said herevn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
4scratch in a quotepastlionthe donkey = donkeytimebadly propertyvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5is in a quotepastthe donkey = donkeyafraid propertytree 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 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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