The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 44

‘Oho! is that the way you answer me?’ said the fox, speaking very roughly in his natural voice.

Who acts: you, way · What happens: be, answer, say, speak · To what, where: way, me, fox, natural voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, way), 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 way	punct
2	Oho	oho	INTJ	_	7 way	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oho	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 way	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 answer	nsubj
9	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 answer	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 answer	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answer	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speaking	punct
17	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 roughly	advmod
19	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	17 speaking	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 voice	nmod:poss
22	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speaking	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the way				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	present	you	the way not said here	me			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the way	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic
4	speak speech: other	gerund	the way not said here			way's natural voice	roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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