The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 102
Then she said to her husband: 'Manus has returned with his twelve foster brothers.
Who acts: queen · What happens: say, return · To what, where: husband, Manus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 9 | Manus | manus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 returned | aux |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 brothers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brothers | compound |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 returned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | queen | queen's husband | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | |||
| 2 | return | present · perfect · passive | Manus | with Manus's twelve foster brothers | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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