The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 90
'Farewell, Covan,' said the Dog of Maol-mor. '
Who acts: Covan · What happens: say · 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 (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 4 Covan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Covan | punct |
| 4 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Covan | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Covan | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dog | det |
| 9 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mor | case |
| 11 | Maol | Maol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mor | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mor | punct |
| 13 | mor | mor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Dog | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Covan | the Dog of Maol mor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
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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