The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 5
Yes, mine; my ancestors were born here, and my sons will be born here also."
What happens: bear · To what, where: mine, sons
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: 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 born | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 born | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 born | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 born | conj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 born | advmod |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 born | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | mine | here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | future · passive | my sons | here | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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