The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 44
'I will beware,' answered the buffalo; and, patting his head, the girl left him.
Who acts: I, girl · What happens: beware, answer, pat, leave · To what, where: buffalo, head · 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, girl), 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 beware | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beware | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beware | aux |
| 4 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beware | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 beware | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 buffalo | det |
| 9 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | patting | pat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 left | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 patting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 patting | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | future | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the buffalo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pat | gerund | the girl not said here | buffalo's head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | the girl | buffalo | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/44/