The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 101
'Sipao, Sipao, I want a town as great as that of Insato, the King of Pita; and I wish to be chief over it!'
Who acts: Sipao, I · What happens: want, wish, be · To what, where: town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sipao, 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 Sipao | punct |
| 2 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sipao | punct |
| 4 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sipao | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 great | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Insato | case |
| 15 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 that | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Insato | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Pita | case |
| 20 | Pita | Pita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wish | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 chief | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 chief | cop |
| 27 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wish | ccomp |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 chief | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Sipao and Sipao | a town | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | town | chief property | 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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