The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 112
But I see the sun is high in the heavens, and we must be continuing our journey.'
Who acts: I, sun, we, our · What happens: see, be, continue, journey · To what, where: heavens, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sun, we, our), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 see | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 high | cop |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 heavens | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heavens | det |
| 10 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 high | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continuing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 continuing | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 continuing | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 continuing | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 continuing | aux |
| 16 | continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | advcl |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 continuing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the sun | the heavens | high property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | continue | must · progressive | we | our journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | our | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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