The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 120
'I was your grandfather's armourer,' replied the man, 'and I wish to be your armourer also.'
Who acts: I, armourer · What happens: be, reply, wish · To what, where: armourer, man · 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 (I, armourer), 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 | _ | 7 armourer | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 armourer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 armourer | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 armourer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 grandfather | case |
| 7 | armourer | armourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 armourer | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 armourer | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wish | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 armourer | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 armourer | cop |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 armourer | nmod:poss |
| 21 | armourer | armourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | ccomp |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 wish | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | your grandfather's armourer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | your grandfather's armourer | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | your armourer | 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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