The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 80
‘That is a very sensible remark,’ replied the ogre; ‘but what fattens you quickest?’
Who acts: That, sensible remark · What happens: be, reply, fatten · To what, where: sensible remark, ogre, quickest
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, sensible remark), 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 remark | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 remark | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 remark | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 remark | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sensible | advmod |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remark | amod |
| 7 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remark | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 remark | 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 ogre | det |
| 12 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fattens | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fattens | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fattens | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 fattens | nsubj |
| 17 | fattens | fatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 quickest | nsubj |
| 19 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 fattens | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 fattens | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fattens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a sensible remark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a sensible remark | the ogre | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ogre=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fatten | present | quickest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent quick=Patient |
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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