The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 91
Voices of peacocks, voices of ravens, voices of magpies, each claiming to be the Bird of Truth.
Who acts: Voices · What happens: claim, be · To what, where: Bird · 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 (Voices), 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 | Voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 claiming | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 peacocks | case |
| 3 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Voices | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 voices | punct |
| 5 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 peacocks | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ravens | case |
| 7 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 voices | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 voices | punct |
| 9 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 peacocks | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 magpies | case |
| 11 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 voices | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 claiming | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 claiming | nsubj |
| 14 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 Bird | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Bird | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bird | det |
| 18 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 claiming | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Truth | case |
| 20 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bird | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 claiming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | gerund | Voices of peacocks and voices of ravens and voices of magpies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the Bird | of Truth | 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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