The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 32
'Because one of you has got a stone of mine-- a stone with strange signs upon it--which dropped into the water.
Who acts: one, stone · What happens: get, drop · To what, where: stone, water
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 (one, stone), 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 | _ | 22 dropped | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 got | mark |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 got | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 dropped | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mine | case |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stone | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dropped | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 signs | case |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 signs | amod |
| 17 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stone | nmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 signs | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 dropped | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 dropped | nsubj |
| 22 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dropped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | one of you | a stone of mine | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | a stone with strange signs upon fish | the water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory |
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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