The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 21
‘Yes,’ answered the lad, ‘I will certainly try to do so.’
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, try, do · To what, where: lad
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 try | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 try | aux |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 try | advmod |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | xcomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the lad | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | try | future | I | certainly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «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 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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