The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 83
'Oh, I found after all that I could get across the rocks quite easily, so it seemed a pity not to keep my bag,' answered Gudu.
Who acts: I, it · What happens: find, get, seem, not keep, answer · To what, where: rocks, pity, bag, Gudu · 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 (I, it), 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 | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 found | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 that | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 get | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | ccomp |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 rocks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rocks | det |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obl |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 easily | advmod |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 seemed | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pity | det |
| 22 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | obj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 keep | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bag | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keep | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 answered | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 answered | punct |
| 30 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seemed | parataxis |
| 31 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 answered | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | could | I | the rocks | after that | easily property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across rock=Destination | ||
| 3 | seem | past | it | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not keep | to-infinitive | my bag | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | Gudu | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gudu=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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