The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 119
'Good evening, my fine city madam,' remarked a swallow, whose manners were rather rough and countryfied to another who looked particularly distinguished. '
Who acts: manners · What happens: remark, be, look · To what, where: swallow
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manners), 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 | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 madam | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 madam | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 madam | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 madam | compound |
| 8 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 madam | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swallow | det |
| 13 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rough | punct |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 manners | nmod:poss |
| 16 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 rough | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rough | cop |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 rough | advmod |
| 19 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 swallow | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 countryfied | cc |
| 21 | countryfied | countryfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rough | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 another | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 countryfied | conj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 another | acl:relcl |
| 26 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 27 distinguished | advmod |
| 27 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 looked | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | a swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | past | manners | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | manners not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | distinguished property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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