The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 60
“A real friend is never unseasonable,” answered the other.
Who acts: real friend, unseasonable · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real friend, unseasonable), 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 | _ | 7 unseasonable | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unseasonable | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unseasonable | cop |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 unseasonable | advmod |
| 7 | unseasonable | unseasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unseasonable | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 unseasonable | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | a real friend | unseasonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | unseasonable | the other | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=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 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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