The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 108
And Isuro did not know that Gudu was lying, and that he only wanted more food.
Who acts: Isuro, Gudu · What happens: not know, lie, want · To what, where: more food
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isuro, Gudu), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | Isuro | Isuro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lying | mark |
| 7 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lying | aux |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 know | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wanted | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 wanted | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 wanted | advmod |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 food | amod |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wanted | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Isuro | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | Gudu | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want | past | Gudu | more food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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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