The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 19
Those are his legs,' they said; 'his body you cannot see, for it is hidden in the clouds.'
Who acts: legs, body · What happens: be, say, not see, hide · To what, where: legs, body, clouds · 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 (legs, body), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 legs | det |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 legs | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 legs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 legs | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 legs | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hidden | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 hidden | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hidden | aux:pass |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 see | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 clouds | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 clouds | det |
| 24 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hidden | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Makoma's legs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Makoma's legs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not see | can | Makoma's body | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hide | present · passive | body | the clouds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cloud=Location |
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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