The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 35
What other answers she gave I cannot say, but I am pretty sure that they did not learn much from her.
Who acts: other answers, I, rejoicings · What happens: give, not say, be, not learn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other answers, I, rejoicings), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 gave | obj |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answers | amod |
| 3 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 say | advmod |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gave | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 sure | advmod |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 learn | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learn | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 learn | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 learn | advmod |
| 20 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 learn | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learn | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | other answers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | can | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | pretty, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not learn | past · do-support | rejoicings = rejoicing | from answer | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source |
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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