The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 29
'Perhaps I might come for a short time,' said the sheep, with a little hesitation; 'and if we do not get on, we can part company.'
Who acts: I, we · What happens: come, say, not get on, company · To what, where: sheep · 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 (I, we), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hesitation | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hesitation | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hesitation | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hesitation | amod |
| 19 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 company | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 get | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 get | advmod |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 company | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 get | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 company | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 company | aux |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 company | compound |
| 33 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | might | I | time | perhaps property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I not said here | the sheep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not get on a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | company | can | we | 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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