The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 115
“Many thanks, sire,” replied the captain, “I accept your offer.”
Who acts: Many thanks, your · What happens: reply, accept, offer · To what, where: captain, offer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many thanks, your), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanks | amod |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 5 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanks | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 captain | det |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accept | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 accept | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 accept | nsubj |
| 14 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 offer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accept | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Many thanks and sire | the captain | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent captain=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accept in a quote | present | Many thanks and sire = thanks | your offer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | your | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=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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