The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 3
'My name is Chin-debou Mau-giri,' said the giant. '
Who acts: name, Chin debou, My · What happens: be, say, name · To what, where: Chin debou, giant · 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 (name, Chin debou, My), 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 | _ | 7 debou | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 debou | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 debou | cop |
| 5 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 debou | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 debou | punct |
| 7 | debou | debou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | Mau | Mau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 giri | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mau | punct |
| 10 | giri | giri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 debou | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 debou | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 debou | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My name | Chin debou and Mau giri | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chin debou and Mau giri | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/3/