The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 39

‘Just the same answer,’ muttered the witch; ‘I think I’ll go in and see.’

Who acts: same answer, I · What happens: mutter, think, go in, see · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same answer, 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	_	5 answer	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	5 answer	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 muttered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
8	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 muttered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 muttered	parataxis
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 think	ccomp
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 muttered	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	past	the same answer	the witch	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
2	think speech: other	present	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go in	future	I		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive	I not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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