The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 177
‘I don’t rightly know,’ was her answer.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, know, be · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | csubj |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 rightly | advmod |
| 5 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rightly | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | cop |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 answer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | rightly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | past | human's answer | tree rules |
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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