The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 55
'Maybe I shall find some work there,' he thought, 'and at least I shall gain money to help me in my search; for who knows how far my sister and my brothers may have wandered?'
Who acts: I, voice, sister, my · What happens: find, think, gain, help, know, wander · To what, where: work, money, least, me, search · 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 (I, voice, sister, my), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 work | det |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 find | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gain | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 least | case |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 gain | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gain | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 gain | aux |
| 20 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | conj |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gain | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gain | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 search | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 search | nmod:poss |
| 27 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 help | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 knows | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 knows | mark |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 knows | nsubj |
| 31 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | conj |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 far | advmod |
| 33 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 wandered | advmod |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sister | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wandered | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 brothers | cc |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sister | conj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 wandered | aux |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 wandered | aux |
| 41 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 knows | ccomp |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | I | some work | there | maybe property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | voice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gain | shall | I | money | least | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent money=Theme at least=Asset | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | my search | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | wander | may · perfect | my sister and my brothers | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | search | my | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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