The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 83
Covan knew not how far they might yet have to go, or indeed if they were on the right road.
Who acts: Covan · What happens: not know, have, go, be · To what, where: right road · 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 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knew | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 have | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 road | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 road | cc |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 21 road | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 road | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 road | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 road | cop |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 road | amod |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | Covan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | might | Covan | yet | far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Covan not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Covan | the right road | indeed property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/83/