The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 95
'Sipao, Sipao, I want the path to my own kraal!'
Who acts: Sipao · What happens: want · To what, where: path
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 (Sipao), 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 | _ | 2 Sipao | punct |
| 2 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sipao | punct |
| 4 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sipao | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sipao | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 kraal | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kraal | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kraal | amod |
| 13 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Sipao and Sipao | the path | to my own kraal | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent path=Theme to kraal=Attribute |
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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