The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 22
'Oh, how glad I am I learnt the birds' language!' said the eyes of one to the eyes of the other.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, say · To what, where: eyes · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 glad | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 learnt | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 learnt | cop |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 learnt | nsubj |
| 9 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 language | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learnt | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 eyes | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eyes | det |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 other | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | learn property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the eyes of one to the eyes of the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
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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