The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 4

'All my news is that I am seeking service,' answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'I have come from far since sunrise, and glad was I to see the rays of your lamp stream into the darkness.'

Who acts: news, seeking, I, Ardan son · What happens: be, come, see, ray · To what, where: Ardan son, rays, darkness, lamp stream

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 (news, seeking, I, Ardan son), 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	_	9 seeking	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 news	det:predet
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 news	nmod:poss
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seeking	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seeking	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 seeking	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 seeking	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seeking	aux
9	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 son	csubj
10	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seeking	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seeking	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 seeking	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 son	cop
14	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 son	compound
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Gorla	case
17	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 son	acl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 far	case
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 come	obl
25	since	since	ADP	_	26 sunrise	case
26	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glad	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 glad	cc
29	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 son	parataxis
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rays	det
35	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 see	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 stream	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 stream	nmod:poss
38	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stream	compound
39	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rays	nmod
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 darkness	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 darkness	det
42	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · progressive	my news				seek property	tree rules
2	is a	past	seeking	Ardan son			of Gorla	tree rules
3	come	present · perfect	I	Ardan son not said here		sunrise		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme
4	see	past	Ardan son	the rays of your lamp stream	the darkness			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus
5	ray			your lamp stream				nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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