The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 55
'I am Chi-eswa-mapiri, who makes the mountains,' answered the giant; 'and who are you?'
Who acts: I, Chi eswa mapiri, you · What happens: be, make, answer · To what, where: Chi eswa mapiri, mountains, giant
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 (I, Chi eswa mapiri, 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 | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 mapiri | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mapiri | cop |
| 4 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mapiri | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chi | punct |
| 6 | eswa | eswa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mapiri | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 eswa | punct |
| 8 | mapiri | mapiri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mapiri | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 makes | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 who | cc |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 answered | parataxis |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 who | cop |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 who | nsubj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Chi eswa mapiri | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Chi eswa mapiri | the mountains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Product | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Chi eswa mapiri | the giant | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | 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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