The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 40

One day his mother said to him: 'My child, by what name shall we know you?'

Who acts: mother, name · What happens: say, know · To what, where: child, Senna, you · 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 (mother, name), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
10	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 know	obj
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 know	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 know	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Senna's mother	My child	Senna		day		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	know	shall	name	you					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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