The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 139

‘Indeed I am, dear little mother,’ answered the daughter.

Who acts: I, dear little mother · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: dear little mother, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dear little mother), 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 mother	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 mother	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 mother	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mother	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	dear little mother				indeed property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	dear little mother		the daughter				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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