The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 43
“I am making my will,” said he, “that when my hour comes my house may be in order.”
Who acts: Peter, hour, that · What happens: make, say, come, be · To what, where: house, order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, hour, that), 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 | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 making | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 making | aux |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 will | nmod:poss |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 making | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 order | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 order | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 order | nsubj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 comes | mark |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | nsubj |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 that | ccomp |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | obj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 order | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 order | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 order | case |
| 23 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 order | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | Peter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | my hour | my house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | that | order | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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