The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 94
My friends,' said he, 'I have travelled far and am weary.
Who acts: friends, I · What happens: say, travell, be · 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 (friends, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 travelled | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 travelled | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 travelled | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 travelled | aux |
| 11 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 travelled | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weary | cc |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 weary | cop |
| 15 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 travelled | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | travell | present · perfect | I | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I not said here | weary property | 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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