The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 86
'I am eating fire,' answered the man, laughing; 'and my name is Chi-idea-moto, for I am the flame-spirit, and can waste and destroy what I like.'
Who acts: I, eating, name, my · What happens: eat, answer, laugh, be, waste, destroy · To what, where: fire, man, Chi idea moto · 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, eating, name, my), 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 | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | csubj |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughing | punct |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 answered | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 moto | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moto | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 moto | cop |
| 19 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 moto | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chi | punct |
| 21 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moto | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 idea | punct |
| 23 | moto | moto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 spirit | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 spirit | case |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 spirit | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 spirit | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 spirit | det |
| 29 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spirit | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 flame | punct |
| 31 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moto | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 waste | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 waste | cc |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 waste | aux |
| 35 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 moto | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 destroy | cc |
| 37 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 waste | conj |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 destroy | obj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 like | nsubj |
| 40 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 what | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 moto | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 moto | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · progressive | I | fire | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | eating | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | eating not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | my name | Chi idea moto and the flame spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | for the flame spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | waste | can | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | destroy | infinitive | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | like | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 9 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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