The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 95
‘Oh, I am only going out for a little walk,’ answered he.
Who acts: I · What happens: go out, answer · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 going | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 going | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 walk | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 walk | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walk | amod |
| 12 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present · progressive | I | for a little walk | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | man | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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