The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 93
He answered not a word, being resolved to cheat her as he had done before.
Who acts: Ogress · What happens: not answer, resolve, cheat, do · To what, where: word, queen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogress), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 answered | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resolved | punct |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 resolved | aux:pass |
| 8 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cheat | mark |
| 10 | cheat | cheat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resolved | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cheat | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 done | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cheat | advcl |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 done | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past | Ogress | a word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | resolve | gerund · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cheat | to-infinitive | queen | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Ogress | before property | vn act-114-1 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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