The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
'These are my children!' said Insato, waving his hand towards the people.
Who acts: children · What happens: be, say, wave · To what, where: children, hand · 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 (children), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 children | det |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 children | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Insato | Insato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waving | punct |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waving | obj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 waving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my children | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | my children not said here | Insato's hand | towards the people | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme towards people=Recipient |
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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