The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 87
'You are wrong,' said Makoma; 'for I am Makoma, who is "greater" than you--and you cannot destroy me!'
Who acts: You, Makoma, I · What happens: be, say, not destroy · To what, where: me · 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 (You, Makoma, 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 | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Makoma | case |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Makoma | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Makoma | cop |
| 14 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 greater | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 greater | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 greater | cop |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 greater | obl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 destroy | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 destroy | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 destroy | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 destroy | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 destroy | advmod |
| 28 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 destroy | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 destroy | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Makoma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | for Makoma | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | than you; great property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not destroy | can | you | me | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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