The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 22
And Makoma shouted as loud as he could, answering: 'It is I, Makoma, who is called "Greater"!'
Who acts: Makoma, endo · What happens: shout, answer, be, call · To what, where: I, Makoma · 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 (Makoma, endo), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 shouted | cc |
| 2 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 loud | advmod |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shouted | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 answering | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answering | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 answering | aux |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answering | punct |
| 10 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 loud | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 13 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 I | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 I | cop |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shouted | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Makoma | punct |
| 17 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 I | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Makoma | acl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Greater | punct |
| 23 | Greater | Greater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Greater | punct |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Makoma | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | could | Makoma | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | endo | I | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | Makoma | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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