The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 32

Ah," said he, "the only person who can expose the wickedness of the ministers and show the king how wrong he has been, is the Bird of Truth, who can speak the language of men."

Who acts: cuckoo, only person, Bird · What happens: say, expose, show, be, speak · To what, where: wickedness, king, Bird, language · 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 (cuckoo, only person, Bird), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 expose	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 expose	aux
13	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 person	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wickedness	det
15	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expose	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ministers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ministers	det
18	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wickedness	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 show	cc
20	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 expose	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 show	obj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 wrong	advmod
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 show	ccomp
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 been	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 been	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 wrong	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Bird	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 Bird	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Bird	det
31	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expose	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Truth	case
33	Truth	Truth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Bird	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 speak	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 speak	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 speak	aux
37	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 Bird	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 language	det
39	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 speak	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 men	case
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 language	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	cuckoo				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	expose	can	the only person	the wickedness of the ministers			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wickedness=Topic
3	show	present	the only person not said here		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	is	participle				wrong property	tree rules
5	is a	present		the Bird		of Truth	tree rules
6	speak speech: other	can	the Bird	the language of men			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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