The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
'O spirit of my father!' he said, 'what now shall I do?'
Who acts: spirit, I · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spirit, 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 | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 spirit | discourse |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 spirit | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 do | advmod |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | spirit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | shall | I | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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