The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 96
'We must rest here as best we can,' spoke Covan to the cows.
Who acts: We · What happens: rest, speak · To what, where: Covan · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 4 rest | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 rest | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rest | aux |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rest | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 best | advmod |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 rest | xcomp |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 can | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rest | conj |
| 13 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cows | det |
| 16 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spoke | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | must | We | here | good property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | We not said here | Covan | to the cows | 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.
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