The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 100
'My boy,' he said, 'you have not got quite as much sense as other people, but if Heaven has deprived you of some of your wits, it was given you a kind heart.
Who acts: Jack, you, Heaven · What happens: say, not get, deprive, give · To what, where: much sense, you, sense · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, you, Heaven), 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 boy | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 boy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | 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 | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sense | amod |
| 17 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 deprived | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 deprived | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 deprived | mark |
| 24 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 deprived | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 deprived | aux |
| 26 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 deprived | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 some | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 deprived | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wits | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wits | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 some | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 given | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 given | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 given | aux:pass |
| 36 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 deprived | advcl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 given | iobj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 heart | det |
| 39 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 heart | amod |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 given | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not get | present · perfect | you | much sense | as other people | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sense=Stimulus as people=Attribute | |||
| 3 | deprive a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | Heaven | you | of some | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Source of some=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | past · passive | sense | you | tree rules |
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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