The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 61

‘No, of course we won’t,’ answered the wife.

What happens: answer · To what, where: wife

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	7 wo	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wo	nsubj
7	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wo	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wo	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 wo	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	future			the wife				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality

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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