The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 83
'I was only in fun; and you have brought my uncle the greyhound.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: fun, greyhound, uncle
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, you), 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 | _ | 6 fun | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fun | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fun | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 fun | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fun | case |
| 6 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fun | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 greyhound | det |
| 15 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | fun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | you | the greyhound | my uncle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Destination greyhound=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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