The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 111
Speak on, knave; has a bird of the air revealed to you the secret?'
Who acts: you, air · What happens: speak on, have, reveal · To what, where: knave, bird, secret, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, air), 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Speak | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knave | punct |
| 4 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Speak | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Speak | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bird | nmod |
| 12 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 air | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 revealed | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 secret | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 revealed | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak on speech: other | imperative | you not said here | knave | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you not said here | a bird of the air | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reveal | participle | the air not said here | the secret | you | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to you=Recipient |
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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