The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 46
But the mother dove only answered as before, ‘Indeed, I shall do nothing of the sort, for I know we are safely out of your reach.’
Who acts: mother dove, I, we · What happens: answer, do, know, be · To what, where: nothing, reach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother dove, I, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dove | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dove | compound |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 answered | advmod |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Indeed | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sort | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sort | det |
| 19 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 reach | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 reach | cop |
| 26 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 30 reach | advmod |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 reach | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 reach | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 reach | nmod:poss |
| 30 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the mother dove | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | shall | I | nothing | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | we | your reach | safely property | 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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