The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 66
'Then lay the cloak on the ground at my feet,' said the lion, 'and I will give my judgment.'
Who acts: I, my · What happens: lie, say, give, judge · To what, where: cloak, ground, lion, judgment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 lay | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | advmod |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 judgment | nmod:poss |
| 24 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the cloak | the ground | then | at my feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloak=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | future | I | my judgment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | judge | my | nom judgment «cognition 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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