The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 75
'I am half a fairy,' replied the frog; 'but, although I have certain magic gifts, I am not able to do all I wish.
Who acts: I, fairy · What happens: be, reply, have, not be, do, wish · To what, where: fairy, frog, certain magic gifts, all
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, fairy), 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 fairy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fairy | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fairy | cop |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 6 fairy | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairy | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairy | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 frog | det |
| 11 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gifts | amod |
| 20 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gifts | amod |
| 21 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 able | advmod |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 have | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 wish | nsubj |
| 31 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 all | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | half fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | half fairy | the frog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent frog=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | certain magic gifts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: 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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