The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 8
'I shot a buffalo; is that why you call me a murderer?'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: shoot, be · To what, where: buffalo
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 shot | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 buffalo | det |
| 5 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 call | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 call | mark |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 call | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 call | nsubj |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 murderer | det |
| 14 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | I | a buffalo | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | call property | tree rules |
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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