The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 88
I could not stay alone in the village,' said she.
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: not stay, say · To what, where: village · 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, woman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stay | advmod |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stay | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | parataxis |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | could | I | the village | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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