The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 51
No doubt it is as great as you say; but at present it seems to have suffered, as is natural, from the fatigues of the journey.'
Who acts: doubt, you, it · What happens: be, say, seem, suffer, fatigue · To what, where: present, fatigues, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, you, it), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 doubt | det |
| 2 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 great | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 great | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 great | advmod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seems | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 present | case |
| 13 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seems | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seems | nsubj |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 suffered | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 suffered | aux |
| 18 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 seems | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 natural | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 natural | mark |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 natural | cop |
| 22 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seems | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fatigues | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 fatigues | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fatigues | det |
| 26 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 natural | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 journey | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 journey | det |
| 29 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fatigues | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no doubt | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | it | present | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | suffer | to-infinitive · perfect | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the fatigues of the journey | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fatigue | the journey | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=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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