The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 87
'I committed a crime,' said he; 'but I will do my best to make up for it.
Who acts: I, king · What happens: commit, say, do, make up · To what, where: crime, best · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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 | _ | 3 committed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 committed | nsubj |
| 3 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crime | det |
| 5 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 committed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 committed | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 committed | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 best | nmod:poss |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 make | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past | I | a crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | future | I | my best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make up | to-infinitive | I not said here | for crime | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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