The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 68
'Manus has driven a ball at my son, and fain would have slain him,' said she. '
Who acts: wife · What happens: drive, slay, say · To what, where: Manus, fain · 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 (wife), 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 driven | punct |
| 2 | Manus | manus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 driven | aux |
| 4 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driven | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driven | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slain | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slain | cc |
| 12 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 slain | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slain | aux |
| 15 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 driven | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slain | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present · perfect · passive | Manus | at my son | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme ball=Destination | ||||
| 2 | slay | would · perfect · passive | fain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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