The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 5
'Oh, oh!' thought the greedy village people; 'if there are buffaloes to be had for the taking we'll go after some too.'
Who acts: we · What happens: think, have, go · To what, where: greedy village people, taking · 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 (we), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 9 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | compound |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 are | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | aux:pass |
| 17 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | aux:pass |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 taking | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 taking | det |
| 23 | taking | taking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 taking | acl:relcl |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 some | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the greedy village people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent people=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present · passive | for the taking | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | go | future | we | the taking not said here | after some | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location taking=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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