The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 2

'You will be more astonished when I tell you that on my arrival here for the summer I found my nest occupied by a shameless sparrow! "

Who acts: You, I, nest, my · What happens: be, tell, find, occupy, arrive · To what, where: you, arrival, nest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, nest, my), 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 astonished	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 astonished	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 astonished	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 astonished	advmod
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tell	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 astonished	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 you	nmod:unmarked
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 arrival	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arrival	nmod:poss
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 tell	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 summer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 summer	det
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nest	nmod:poss
22	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
23	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 found	xcomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 sparrow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sparrow	det
26	shameless	shameless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sparrow	amod
27	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 occupied	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 astonished	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	You					astonished property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	my arrival; here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	find	past	I	my nest			summer		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nest=Attribute clause=Theme
4	occupy	participle	my nest not said here					by a shameless sparrow	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	arrive		my						nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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