The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 75
Then she summoned Manus to the castle, and for a whole year she kept him fast, and his own mother could not get speech of him.
Who acts: wife, own mother · What happens: summon, keep, not get, speak · To what, where: Manus, speech · 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, own mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Manus | manus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 year | amod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | obj |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 kept | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mother | amod |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 summoned | conj |
| 26 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 speech | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | wife | Manus | then | to the castle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manus=Recipient | ||
| 2 | keep | past | wife | Manus | year | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | not get | could | Manus's own mother | speech of Manus | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | speak | Manus | nom speech «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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