The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 91
'Oh,' said he, 'my wife died, and I sold her.'
Who acts: Goldsmith, I · What happens: say, die, sell · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goldsmith, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 died | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sold | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sold | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sold | nsubj |
| 15 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sold | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sold | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | die | past | Goldsmith | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sell | past | I | wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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