The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 46
And the woman smiled and answered, ‘Well, we will see what we can do with you,’ and, rising, went into the house.
Who acts: woman, we · What happens: smile, answer, see, do, rise, go · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 smiled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 see | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Well | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rising | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rising | punct |
| 24 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 smiled | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | can | we | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | the woman not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go | past | the woman not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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