The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 94
'Martin,' said the old man suddenly, 'I feel that I cannot live much longer.
Who acts: Martin, I · What happens: say, feel, not live · 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 (Martin, I), 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 | _ | 2 Martin | punct |
| 2 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Martin | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Martin | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 live | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 live | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 live | advmod |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 feel | ccomp |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 live | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Martin | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not live | can | I | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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