The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 41

'No one,' replied the city swallow, 'except an owl, who lives a hermit's life in that desert, and he knows only one word of man's speech, and that is "cross."

Who acts: one, owl, ', that, man · What happens: reply, live, know, be, word, speak · To what, where: city swallow, life, desert, one word, cross, speech · 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 (one, owl, ', that), 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 replied	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swallow	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swallow	compound
9	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 owl	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 owl	punct
12	except	except	ADP	_	14 owl	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 owl	det
14	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lives	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lives	nsubj
17	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 owl	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hermit	det
19	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 life	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 hermit	case
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lives	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 desert	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 desert	det
24	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lives	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knows	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knows	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knows	nsubj
28	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 one	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 word	nummod
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knows	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 speech	case
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 speech	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 man	case
35	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 word	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 cross	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cross	cc
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 cross	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 cross	cop
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 cross	punct
41	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knows	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 cross	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	no one	the city swallow		except a owl	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic
2	live	present	a owl	a hermit's life	that desert		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
3	know	present	'	one word of man's speech			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	present	that	cross			tree rules
5	word			man's speech			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	speak		man				nom speech «communication transitive»: 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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