The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 30
‘Certainly,’ answered the Fox, ‘you have only to say the word.’
Who acts: you · What happens: answer, have, say · To what, where: Fox, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (you), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | 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 Fox | det |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 say | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 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 Fox | certainly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | the word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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