The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 43
Another year and a day passed by, when Covan the Brown-haired, youngest son of Gorla of the Flocks, one morning spake to his parents, saying:
Who acts: Covan · What happens: pass by, say · To what, where: day · 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 (Covan), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saying | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 year | conj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 day | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 saying | advmod |
| 10 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 saying | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Brown | det |
| 12 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Covan | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Brown | punct |
| 14 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Brown | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Covan | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Gorla | case |
| 19 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Flocks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Flocks | det |
| 22 | Flocks | Flock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Gorla | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spake | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 morning | nummod |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spake | compound |
| 26 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Covan | appos |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 parents | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 parents | nmod:poss |
| 29 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spake | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | a day not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Covan and the Brown | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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