The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 61
‘All the better for answering, child.’
What happens: answer · To what, where: child
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 better | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 better | det |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 answering | mark |
| 6 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 better | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answering | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | child | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=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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