The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 8
'Yes, truly I know where they are,' answered he, 'and I say not that they may not be brought to life again.
Who acts: I, words · What happens: know, be, answer, not say, not bring · To what, where: man, words, life · 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, words), 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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 know | ccomp |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 where | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 where | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 he | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 he | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 say | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 say | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 brought | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 say | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | truly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | words = word | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not bring | may · passive | words = word | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to life=Destination |
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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