The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 56
But I have a necklace of shining stones which was left me by father, and one, the largest engraven with weird characters, is missing.
Who acts: I, father, one · What happens: have, shine, leave, be · To what, where: necklace, me
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, father, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 have | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 necklace | det |
| 5 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stones | case |
| 7 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stones | amod |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 necklace | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 necklace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 left | iobj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 missing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 missing | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 missing | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 engraven | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 engraven | det |
| 20 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 engraven | amod |
| 21 | engraven | engraven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | appos |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 characters | case |
| 23 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 characters | amod |
| 24 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 engraven | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 engraven | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 missing | cop |
| 27 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a necklace of shining stones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | father | a necklace of shining stones | me | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme i=Attribute | |||
| 4 | is | present | one | missing 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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