English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 81
“A friend,” answered the other; “I come to bring you good news of your ship _Unicorn_.”
Who acts: friend · What happens: answer, come, bring · To what, where: other, good news, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bring | mark |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 news | amod |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ship | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 news | nmod |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Unicorn | punct |
| 22 | Unicorn | Unicorn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a friend | the other | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | a friend = friend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | a friend = friend not said here | good news of your ship | you | Unicorn obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination news=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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