The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
For I loved Butou the traitor, and he has stolen Sipao from me!'
Who acts: I, Butou · What happens: love, steal · To what, where: Butou, Sipao
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 (I, Butou), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 loved | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Butou | Butou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 traitor | det |
| 6 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stolen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stolen | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stolen | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stolen | aux |
| 11 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 loved | conj |
| 12 | Sipao | Sipao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stolen | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stolen | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 stolen | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | I | Butou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | present · perfect | Butou | Sipao | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sipao=Theme from i=Source |
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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