The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 6

I want the finest camel that can be found, and the most splendid garments,' said he.

Who acts: I, splendid garments · What happens: want, find, say · To what, where: finest camel · 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, splendid garments), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 camel	det
4	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 camel	amod
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 found	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	aux:pass
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 camel	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garments	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 splendid	advmod
14	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 garments	amod
15	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 garments	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 garments	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 want	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	I	the finest camel	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot camel=Theme
2	find	can · passive		the finest camel	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the splendid garments		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/6/