The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 94
‘Of course not,’ replied the girl, and at her orders two chests were brought in, as they had been before.
Who acts: chests, girl · What happens: not reply, bring in, be, order · To what, where: girl, two chests, orders
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chests, girl), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 not | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 orders | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 orders | nmod:poss |
| 14 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | obl |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 chests | nummod |
| 16 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 before | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 before | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 before | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 before | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 before | cop |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring in | past · passive | two chests | girl's orders | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | chests = chest | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | girl | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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