The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 77
Chi-gwisa-miti was taller than either of his brothers, but Makoma was not afraid, and called out to him: 'Who are you, O Big One?'
Who acts: Chi gwisa miti, Makoma · What happens: be, not be, call out · To what, where: miti, you
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 (Chi gwisa miti, Makoma), 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 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 miti | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chi | punct |
| 3 | gwisa | gwisa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miti | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 gwisa | punct |
| 5 | miti | miti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taller | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taller | cop |
| 7 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 either | case |
| 9 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 taller | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 either | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 afraid | cc |
| 15 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 taller | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 afraid | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 called | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 you | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 you | punct |
| 27 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 you | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 you | cop |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 taller | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Big | punct |
| 31 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Big | compound |
| 32 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 you | conj |
| 33 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 Big | flat |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 taller | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 taller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Chi gwisa miti | than either; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Makoma | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | Makoma not said here | miti | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 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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