The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 22
And when Covan had told him of his trouble, and how the roe always led him further and further, the Dog only answered:
Who acts: Covan, roe, Dog · What happens: tell, lead, answer, trouble · To what, where: Dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Covan, roe, Dog), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 told | mark |
| 3 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 led | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 led | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roe | det |
| 14 | roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 led | advmod |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 led | obj |
| 18 | further | further | ADV | _ | 16 led | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 further | cc |
| 20 | further | further | ADV | _ | 18 further | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 answered | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dog | det |
| 23 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 answered | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 answered | advmod |
| 25 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 led | parataxis |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Covan | Dog | of Dog's trouble | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the roe | Dog | always, further property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Dog | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | trouble | Dog | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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