The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 61
I am Insato,' said he, 'but in my own country I take man's shape--even as you see me--for this is Pita, the land over which I am king.'
Who acts: I, Insato, you, this · What happens: be, say, take, see · To what, where: Insato, shape, me, king, land · 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, Insato, you, this), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Insato | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Insato | cop |
| 3 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Insato | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Insato | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 he | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 he | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 country | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 he | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 see | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 Pita | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Pita | case |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 Pita | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Pita | cop |
| 30 | Pita | Pita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 land | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Pita | appos |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 king | obl |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 king | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 king | cop |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 land | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Insato | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Insato | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | present | Insato | man's shape | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | present | this | for Pita | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | I | king | the land | tree rules |
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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