The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 54

'Oh dove!' cried the boy, addressing the bird in her own language, 'Oh dove! tell me, I pray you, where is the castle of Come-and- never-go?'

Who acts: dove, I, castle · What happens: cry, address, tell, pray, be, come · To what, where: boy, bird, own language, me, you, castle · 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 (dove, I, castle), 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	_	3 dove	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dove	discourse
3	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dove	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 dove	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 addressing	punct
10	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addressing	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 language	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 language	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 language	amod
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addressing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dove	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 dove	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 dove	discourse
20	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 language	appos
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 dove	punct
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 addressing	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pray	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pray	nsubj
26	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 pray	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 castle	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 castle	advmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 castle	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 castle	det
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 Come	mark
34	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 castle	acl
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 go	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 go	cc
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 and	punct
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 go	advmod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 never	punct
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 Come	conj
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 castle	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 castle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	dove	the boy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	address	gerund	dove not said here		the bird	dove's own language	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	dove not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
5	is a	present		the castle			tree rules
6	come	infinitive	the castle not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not go	infinitive	the castle not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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