The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 60
'It is time for you to bid farewell to your daughter,' said he; 'for I see the dragon coming to us.'
Who acts: spot, you, way, I, dragon · What happens: be, bid, say, see, come · To what, where: time, farewell, dragon, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spot, you, way, I), 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 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 bid | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bid | mark |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dragon | det |
| 23 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 dragon | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 coming | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | spot | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bid | to-infinitive | you | farewell | to your daughter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | present | I | the dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | the dragon not said here | us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location |
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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