The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 112

'It is I,' answered Manus; 'alone have I returned from the land of Lochlann.'

Who acts: foot, I · What happens: be, answer, return · To what, where: I, Manus, land · 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 (foot, I), 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	_	4 I	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 I	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 I	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 returned	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 returned	nsubj
14	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 answered	ccomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returned	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Lochlann	case
19	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 land	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	foot	I			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	I		Manus		tree rules
3	return	present · perfect	I			the land of Lochlann	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location

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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