The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 91
'As you please, madam,' said he, bowing himself out of the palace.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: say, bow · To what, where: ogre, palace · 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 (ogre), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 madam | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 madam | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 madam | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bowing | punct |
| 12 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 bowing | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bowing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ogre | as madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | ogre not said here | ogre | the palace | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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