The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 20
In the morning--so I am told by my friend the kingfisher--they were rescued by a fisherman who lived near the river bank.'
Who acts: friend, fisherman · What happens: tell, rescue, live · To what, where: I, children, river bank · 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 (friend, fisherman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 told | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl:agent |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingfisher | det |
| 13 | kingfisher | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 rescued | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rescued | aux:pass |
| 17 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 fisherman | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fisherman | det |
| 20 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rescued | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 bank | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bank | det |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bank | compound |
| 26 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | my friend the kingfisher | I | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | rescue | past · passive | a fisherman | children = child | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a fisherman | the river bank | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bank=Location |
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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