The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 56

'I like not to leave the deer on the hill and the fish in the rivers, and sit in judgment on my people,' said Oireal, when he had listened to the words of the chief of the council.

Who acts: I, Oireal · What happens: like, not leave, sit, say, listen, word · To what, where: deer, hill, judgment, chief · 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, Oireal), 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	_	3 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 leave	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fish	det
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hill	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 rivers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rivers	det
17	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fish	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sit	cc
20	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 judgment	case
22	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sit	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 people	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 people	nmod:poss
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 listened	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 listened	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 listened	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 listened	aux
34	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 said	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 words	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 words	det
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 listened	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 chief	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chief	det
40	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 council	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 council	det
43	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 chief	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the deer	the hill and the fish in the rivers		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme on hill=Location
3	sit	present	I not said here		judgment	on my people	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in judgment=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	Oireal				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	listen	past · perfect	Oireal			to the words of the chief of the council	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
6	word			the chief of the council			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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