The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 43
'O great men!' he said, while they all listened, 'which of you will leap into the pool and overcome the crocodiles?'
Who acts: great men, men, you · What happens: say, listen, leap, overcome · To what, where: pool, crocodiles · 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 (great men, men, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 men | discourse |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listened | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 listened | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 listened | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 they | det |
| 13 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ' | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 leap | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 leap | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leap | aux |
| 20 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 pool | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pool | det |
| 23 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leap | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overcome | cc |
| 25 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 leap | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 crocodiles | det |
| 27 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 overcome | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | great men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | men = man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leap | future | you | the pool | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | overcome | present | you not said here | the crocodiles | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crocodile=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: «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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