The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 48
'I thank you,' said the python; 'come back here with the new moon, when I shall have eaten the antelope, and I will reward you as I promised.'
Who acts: I · What happens: thank, say, come back, eat, reward, promise · To what, where: you, python, antelope · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 python | det |
| 9 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 here | advmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 come | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moon | amod |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eaten | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 eaten | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 eaten | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 eaten | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 eaten | aux |
| 24 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 come | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 antelope | det |
| 26 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eaten | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 reward | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 reward | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 reward | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 reward | aux |
| 31 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 reward | obj |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 promised | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 promised | nsubj |
| 35 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 reward | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | I | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the python | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come back | infinitive | here | with the new moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | shall · perfect | I | the antelope | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reward | future | I | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
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