The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 48
'The roe, and the duck, and the salmon are here,' said Covan to the old man, when he reached the cottage.
Who acts: roe, Covan, salmon · What happens: be, say, reach · To what, where: old man, cottage · 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 (roe, Covan, salmon), 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 | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roe | det |
| 3 | roe | roe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 here | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 duck | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 duck | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 duck | det |
| 7 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roe | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 salmon | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 salmon | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 salmon | det |
| 11 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roe | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reached | punct |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 reached | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reached | nsubj |
| 25 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cottage | det |
| 27 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reached | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the roe and the duck and the salmon | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Covan | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | salmon | the cottage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
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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