The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 111
'Because you trusted me and took what I had to offer, you have made me your friend, Covan,' said Doran-donn. '
Who acts: you, I, Doran · What happens: trust, take, have, offer, make, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Doran), 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 trusted | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 trusted | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trusted | nsubj |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 trusted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trusted | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 offer | mark |
| 12 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 trusted | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl:agent |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Covan | punct |
| 21 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 friend | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trusted | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 trusted | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | Doran | Doran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 donn | punct |
| 27 | donn | donn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Doran | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past | you | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | present · perfect | you | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Doran | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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