The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 90
'That is easily done,' said the leader, giving a kick to a large tree.
Who acts: leader · What happens: do, say, give · To what, where: That, kick, large tree · 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 (leader), 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 | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 leader | det |
| 10 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kick | det |
| 14 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tree | amod |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | That | easily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the leader | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the leader not said here | a kick | a large tree | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kick=Theme to tree=Recipient |
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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