The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 129

'I met some one in the village who lives in my country, and he told me that my mother is very, very ill, and if I do not go to her at once she will be dead before I arrive.

Who acts: I, village, man, mother · What happens: meet, live, tell, be, not go, arrive · To what, where: one, village, country, me, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, village, man, mother), 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 met	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 met	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 village	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 country	nmod:poss
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lives	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 ill	mark
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ill	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ill	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	26 ill	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ill	punct
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 ill	advmod
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 go	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 go	advmod
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 once	case
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 dead	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 dead	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 dead	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 dead	cop
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 go	parataxis
42	before	before	SCONJ	_	44 arrive	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 arrive	nsubj
44	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 dead	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	I	some one		the village		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
2	live	present	the village			my country		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	man		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	present	my mother				ill property	tree rules
5	not go a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	I		mother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
6	is	future	mother				dead property	tree rules
7	arrive	present	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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