The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 69
You are the only creature that I have seen do a kind deed since a fatal curiosity lured me to this place.'
Who acts: You, only creature, fatal curiosity · What happens: be, see, do, lure · To what, where: only creature, kind deed, me
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 (You, only creature, fatal curiosity), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 creature | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creature | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 creature | acl:relcl |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deed | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deed | amod |
| 13 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 lured | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 curiosity | det |
| 16 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 curiosity | amod |
| 17 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lured | nsubj |
| 18 | lured | lure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lured | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lured | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | the only creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | the only creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | the only creature not said here | a kind deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lure | past | a fatal curiosity | me | to this place result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to place=Result |
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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