The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 107
'They are hardly as blue as I expected,' he grumbled, though the parrot knew as well as he did that he was not speaking the truth; 'so you must bring me something else in exchange for the crown you covet so much.
Who acts: eyes, I, giant, parrot, you · What happens: be, expect, grumble, know, do, not speak · To what, where: truth, something, me, exchange · 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 (eyes, I, giant, parrot), 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 | _ | 6 blue | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blue | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blue | cop |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 6 blue | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 blue | advmod |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 expected | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 expected | nsubj |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blue | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grumbled | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 grumbled | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grumbled | nsubj |
| 13 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 knew | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 parrot | det |
| 17 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grumbled | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 18 knew | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 did | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knew | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 speaking | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 speaking | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 speaking | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 speaking | advmod |
| 28 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 did | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speaking | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 bring | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bring | aux |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blue | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obj |
| 38 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 bring | obj |
| 39 | else | else | ADV | _ | 38 something | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 exchange | case |
| 41 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 covet | obl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 crown | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 crown | det |
| 44 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 exchange | nmod |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 covet | nsubj |
| 46 | covet | covet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 bring | conj |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 much | advmod |
| 48 | much | much | ADV | _ | 46 covet | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | eyes = eye | blue, hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | past | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | giant | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | past | the parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do | past | giant | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not speak speech: other | past · progressive | giant | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bring | must | you | something | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination something=Theme | |||
| 8 | covet | present | you | exchange for the crown | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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