The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 14

‘Of course I will,’ replied the Wolf.

What happens: reply · To what, where: Wolf

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. 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	_	8 replied	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 will	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Wolf	det
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	future		the Wolf					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

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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