The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 2
'Ah!' said the goldsmith, 'you little know what delightful adventures I have had!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, know, have · To what, where: goldsmith, delightful adventures · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goldsmith | det |
| 7 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 know | ccomp |
| 14 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adventures | amod |
| 15 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 what | nsubj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | aux |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the goldsmith | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | I | delightful adventures not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=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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