The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 55
Hold on to my tail,' said Insato, 'and I will go down first, drawing you after me.'
Who acts: you, Insato, I · What happens: hold on, say, go down, draw · To what, where: you · 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 (you, Insato, 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Hold | compound:prt |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tail | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | parataxis |
| 9 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawing | punct |
| 19 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 go | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 drawing | obj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 drawing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold on | imperative | you not said here | to my tail | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Insato | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go down | future | I | down, first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | I not said here | you | after me | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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