The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 5
'If it please your majesty, the Bird of Truth will explain that herself,' answered the boy.
Who acts: Bird · What happens: majesty, explain, answer · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 explain | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 majesty | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 majesty | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 majesty | discourse |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 explain | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 majesty | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bird | det |
| 9 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 explain | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Truth | case |
| 11 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bird | nmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 explain | aux |
| 13 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | ADP | _ | 15 herself | case |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 explain | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 explain | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 explain | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | majesty a condition, not said to happen | Bird | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | future | the Bird of Truth | that Truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the boy | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/5/