The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 15
Is this the country of Sakatirina of five heads, whom I am seeking?'
Who acts: country · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: country
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 (country), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 country | cop |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 country | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeking | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sakatirina | case |
| 6 | Sakatirina | Sakatirina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 country | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heads | case |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 heads | nummod |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 country | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seeking | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 seeking | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeking | aux |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this country | of Sakatirina; of five heads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | present · progressive | this country | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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