The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 48
The farmer, knowing that the man was very slow-witted, gave him most careful instructions as to everything that he was to do.
Who acts: farmer, man · What happens: know, be, give · To what, where: careful instructions, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knowing | punct |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 farmer | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 witted | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 witted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 witted | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 witted | advmod |
| 10 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 witted | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 slow | punct |
| 12 | witted | witted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knowing | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 farmer | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 careful | advmod |
| 17 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 instructions | amod |
| 18 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 everything | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 everything | case |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 gave | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 everything | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the farmer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the man | witted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the farmer | careful instructions | man | as everything | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient instruction=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | past | farmer | do 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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