The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 82
For,' said he, 'it is honourable to serve a man so great as thou.'
Who acts: stroke, breath · What happens: say, be, serve · To what, where: man · 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 (stroke, breath), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honourable | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 honourable | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 honourable | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 honourable | cop |
| 10 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 serve | mark |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 honourable | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 serve | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 serve | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 thou | case |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 great | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 honourable | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 honourable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | stroke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | breath | honourable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | breath not said here | a man | great property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Attribute |
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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