The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 15
“Because, sire,” she answered, “white suits me better than anything else.”
Who acts: answer · What happens: answer
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 sire | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suits | punct |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 suits | amod |
| 12 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 better | nsubj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 better | nsubj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 anything | case |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 better | obl |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 anything | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | answer | because sire | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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