The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 22
'I am tired of being always in the castle,' she said to her attendants; 'and I mean to hunt a little.
Who acts: I, other · What happens: be, say, mean, hunt · To what, where: attendants, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other), 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 | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 castle | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 castle | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tired | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 attendants | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mean | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 mean | nsubj |
| 22 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hunt | mark |
| 24 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 mean | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hunt | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | of the castle; always property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | other | other's attendants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a little | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
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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