The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 68

[A Pathan story told to Major Campbell.]

What happens: tell · To what, where: Pathan story · 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: 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 story	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Pathan	Pathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	compound
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 story	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Major	case
7	Major	Major	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:agent
8	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Major	flat
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		a Pathan story not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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