The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 78
'I,' said the giant, 'am Chi-gwisa-miti, and I am planting these bao-babs and thorns as food for my children the elephants.'
Who acts: I · What happens: say, plant · To what, where: giant, bao babs · 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 (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ' | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | am | am | ADP | _ | 15 miti | case |
| 11 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 miti | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chi | punct |
| 13 | gwisa | gwisa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 miti | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 gwisa | punct |
| 15 | miti | miti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ' | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 planting | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 planting | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 planting | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 planting | aux |
| 20 | planting | plant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 babs | det |
| 22 | bao | bao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 babs | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bao | punct |
| 24 | babs | bab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 planting | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thorns | cc |
| 26 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 babs | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 food | case |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 planting | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 children | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 children | nmod:poss |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 planting | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 elephants | det |
| 33 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 children | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | plant | present · progressive | I | this bao babs and thorns | as food; for my children and the elephants | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bab=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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