The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 103

'I hear,' he said, 'that the old witch on the island has a goat with golden horns from which hang bells that tinkle the sweetest music.

Who acts: I, king, old witch, golden horns, bells · What happens: hear, say, have, hang, tinkle · To what, where: goat, bells, sweetest music · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, old witch, golden horns), 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 hear	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 has	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 witch	amod
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 island	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 island	det
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 witch	nmod
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 goat	det
19	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 horns	case
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horns	amod
22	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 goat	nmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hang	nsubj
25	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 horns	acl:relcl
26	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hang	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tinkle	nsubj
28	tinkle	tinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bells	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 music	det
30	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 music	amod
31	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tinkle	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	I			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	the old witch on the island	a goat	with golden horns	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
4	hang	present	golden horns	bells		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient
5	tinkle	present	bells	the sweetest music		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme

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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