The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 100

'O Chief,' answered Chi-eswa-mapiri, 'at mid- day a man came out of the river; he was of immense statue, and his grey moustaches were of such length that I could not see where they ended!

Who acts: Chief, man, grey moustaches, I, moustaches · What happens: answer, come out, be, not see, end · To what, where: Chi eswa mapiri, river, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, man, grey moustaches, I), 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	_	3 Chief	punct
2	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 Chief	case
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Chief	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Chief	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mapiri	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Chi	punct
9	eswa	eswa	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mapiri	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 eswa	punct
11	mapiri	mapiri	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	mid	mid	X	_	17 day	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 mid	punct
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 river	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 statue	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 statue	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 statue	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 statue	case
29	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 statue	amod
30	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 length	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 length	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 moustaches	nmod:poss
34	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 moustaches	amod
35	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 length	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 length	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 length	case
38	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 length	amod
39	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	parataxis
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 see	obj
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 see	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 see	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 see	advmod
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 length	parataxis
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 ended	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 ended	nsubj
47	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 see	ccomp
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Chief	Chi eswa mapiri			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mapiri=Eventuality
2	come out	past	a man	the river	day		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient river=Result
3	is	past	Chief			of immense statue	tree rules
4	is	past	Chief's grey moustaches			of such length	tree rules
5	not see	could	I	that			tree rules
6	end	past	moustaches = moustache				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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