The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 104
'Here is the necklace you asked for,' said the parrot.
Who acts: necklace, you · What happens: be, ask, say · To what, where: necklace, parrot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (necklace, 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 necklace | det |
| 5 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 necklace | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 asked | 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 | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 parrot | det |
| 13 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the necklace | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | you | the necklace not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent necklace=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parrot=Topic |
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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