The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 124
'Leave off breaking the swords,' cried the man, 'and look at this old sword and helmet and tunic that I wore in the wars of your grandfather.
Who acts: I, grandfather · What happens: leave off, break, cry, look, wear, war · To what, where: swords, man, tunic, wars · 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, grandfather), 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 | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Leave | compound:prt |
| 4 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Leave | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swords | det |
| 6 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 breaking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sword | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sword | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sword | amod |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 helmet | cc |
| 21 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sword | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tunic | cc |
| 23 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sword | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 wore | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 wore | nsubj |
| 26 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tunic | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wars | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wars | det |
| 29 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wore | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 grandfather | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 32 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wars | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | break | gerund | the swords | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | at this old sword and helmet and tunic | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sword=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wear | past | I | tunic | the wars of your grandfather | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | |||
| 6 | war | your grandfather | nom war «act intransitive»: of=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.
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