The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 87

'My cave is just here,' said the Dog of Maol- mor, of whom Covan son of Gorla had heard much. '

Who acts: cave, Covan son · What happens: be, say, hear · To what, where: Dog · 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 (cave, Covan 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	_	6 here	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cave	nmod:poss
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 here	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 here	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 here	advmod
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 here	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 mor	case
13	Maol	Maol	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 mor	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Maol	punct
15	mor	mor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Dog	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 whom	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 whom	case
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 heard	obl
19	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 son	compound
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Gorla	case
22	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
25	much	much	ADV	_	24 heard	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	My cave		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the Dog of Maol mor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	hear	past · perfect	Covan son of Gorla			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of whom=Stimulus

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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