The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 26
Who is it,' he said, 'making that fire smoulder around my feet?'
What happens: be, say, make · To what, where: voice, fire smoulder, feet · 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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 smoulder | mark |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smoulder | compound |
| 13 | smoulder | smoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | xcomp |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 making | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | voice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | make | gerund | fire smoulder | my feet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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