The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 8
'Get down and cut the meshes of the net, and set the poor bird free,' said the horse.
What happens: get down, cut, set, say · To what, where: meshes, poor bird, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Get | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cut | cc |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Get | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meshes | det |
| 7 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cut | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 net | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 net | det |
| 10 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meshes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bird | amod |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | infinitive | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | the meshes of the net | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mesh=Product | |||||
| 3 | set | past | the poor bird | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bird=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the horse | tree rules |
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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