The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 1
'Where on earth do you come from, and where did you get that buffalo?'
Who acts: you · What happens: come, get · To what, where: buffalo
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 get | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 buffalo | det |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past · do-support | you | that buffalo | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus |
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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