The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 69
'I am your brother,' replied the stranger, 'and I have returned home without the money I hoped to have made.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, reply, return, hope, make · To what, where: brother, stranger, money · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stranger | det |
| 10 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 returned | aux |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 returned | advmod |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 money | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 money | det |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hoped | nsubj |
| 22 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 money | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | aux |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hoped | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | your brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the stranger | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | present · perfect | I | without the money; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hope | past | I | the money not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | I not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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