The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 19
‘Yes, of course I should,’ replied the Don.
Who acts: Don · What happens: reply
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 should | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 should | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | aux |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 should | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 should | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Don | det |
| 12 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | should | the Don | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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