The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 39
He could also speak like a grown man, but usually he was very silent.
Who acts: Senna · What happens: speak, grow, be · 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 (Senna), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 silent | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 silent | cc |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 silent | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 silent | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 silent | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 silent | advmod |
| 15 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speak | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | could | Senna | like a grown man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Senna | silent, usually property | 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 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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