The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 42
'You can roam about this field, and this, and this,' she said, 'for they belong to my husband; and that is his wood, where you may hide yourself.
Who acts: You, beast, fields, that · What happens: roam, say, belong, be, hide · To what, where: this, wood, yourself · 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 (You, beast, fields, that), 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 | _ | 4 roam | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 roam | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 roam | aux |
| 4 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roam | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 roam | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 this | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 roam | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 this | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 this | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 roam | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 roam | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 roam | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 belong | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 belong | nsubj |
| 22 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 husband | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belong | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 wood | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wood | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 wood | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 wood | cop |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wood | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hide | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 hide | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 hide | nsubj |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 hide | aux |
| 36 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 wood | parataxis |
| 37 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 hide | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | can | You | this | about this field; this obl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | beast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | belong | present | fields = field | to my husband | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | husband's wood | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | may | you | yourself | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
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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