The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 74
'Biz-z-z,' hummed Zengi-mizi, 'ask him for Sipao the Mirror.'
Who acts: z z · What happens: hum, ask · To what, where: Zengi
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 (z z), 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 | _ | 6 z | punct |
| 2 | Biz | biz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 z | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Biz | punct |
| 4 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 z | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 z | punct |
| 6 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hummed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 z | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 z | punct |
| 9 | hummed | hum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Zengi | Zengi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hummed | obj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 mizi | punct |
| 12 | mizi | mizi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Zengi | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 hummed | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Sipao | case |
| 18 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mirror | det |
| 20 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sipao | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hummed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hum | past | z z | Zengi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zengi=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Zengi | for Sipao | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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