The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 48
'I have just returned from a far country,' he said, 'and I have some of the largest and most brilliant stones in the world with me.
Who acts: I, husband · What happens: return, say, have · To what, where: far country, some · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, husband), 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 returned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stones | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stones | det |
| 22 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 stones | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brilliant | cc |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 brilliant | advmod |
| 25 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 largest | conj |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 some | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stones | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present · perfect | I | a far country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | some | with me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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