The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 112
'It is not I, but my brother, who knows,' replied the traitor; 'if your majesty would ask him--' But before the words were out of his mouth the king had struck a blow with his sceptre on a golden plate that hung on the wall.
Who acts: secret, brother, I, majesty, words, king · What happens: not be, know, reply, ask, be, strike · To what, where: I, traitor, bird, mouth, blow, wall
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 (secret, brother, I, majesty), 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 | _ | 5 I | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 I | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 I | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 I | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 replied | cc |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 traitor | det |
| 17 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ask | aux |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | obj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 28 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 struck | cc |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 mouth | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 words | det |
| 31 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 mouth | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 mouth | cop |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 mouth | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mouth | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 struck | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 struck | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 struck | aux |
| 40 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 blow | det |
| 42 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 struck | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 sceptre | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 sceptre | nmod:poss |
| 45 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 blow | nmod |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 plate | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 plate | det |
| 48 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 plate | amod |
| 49 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sceptre | nmod |
| 50 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 hung | nsubj |
| 51 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 plate | acl:relcl |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 wall | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 wall | det |
| 54 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hung | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | secret | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | my brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | I | the traitor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent traitor=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | would | your majesty | bird | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the words | bird's mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | strike | past · perfect | the king | a blow | with bird's sceptre on a golden plate | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent blow=Patient with sceptre=Instrument | |||
| 7 | hang | past | a golden plate | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
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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