The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 85
And the horse answered: 'I am the soul of that unhappy man for whom you spent all your fortune.
Who acts: horse, I, you · What happens: answer, be, spend · To what, where: soul, fortune · 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: who acts (horse, I, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 soul | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 soul | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 soul | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 soul | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 13 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soul | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 man | nmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 spent | nsubj |
| 18 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 whom | acl:relcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 fortune | det:predet |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spent | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | the soul | of that unhappy man for the soul | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spend | past | you | your fortune | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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