The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

Then he said to his mother: 'Rest gently, my mother, for I go to make a home for myself and become a hero.'

Who acts: boy, I · What happens: say, rest, go, make, become · To what, where: mother, home, hero · 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 (boy, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Rest	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Rest	punct
9	Rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	gently	gently	ADV	_	9 Rest	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Rest	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Rest	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 home	det
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 myself	case
23	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 make	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 become	cc
25	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hero	det
27	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 become	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Rest	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy		then	to boy's mother	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to mother=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	rest	infinitive		my mother		gently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	a home		for myself	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent home=Product for myself=Asset
5	become	infinitive	I not said here	a hero			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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