The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 21

‘Yes, I am,’ was the answer.

What happens: be · To what, where: answer

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 answer	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 am	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 am	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 am	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 am	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 am	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answer	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the answer					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 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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