The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 3
'You have done well indeed,' he said to Covan son of Gorla. '
Who acts: You, man · What happens: do, say · 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 (You, man), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | compound |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Gorla | case |
| 15 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | You | indeed, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | to Covan son of Gorla | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to son=Experiencer clause=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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