The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 134
'It is very painful,' said they, 'but there is no other way that we know of.
Who acts: pitch, sisters, other way, we · What happens: be, say, know · To what, where: other way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pitch, sisters, other way, we), 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 | _ | 5 painful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 painful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 painful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 painful | advmod |
| 5 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 painful | conj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 is | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 painful | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 way | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 know | obl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 know | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | pitch | painful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sisters = sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no other way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | we | no other way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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