The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 10
'I saw some pretty new birds, high up in a tree yonder,' he remarked.
Who acts: I, bird · What happens: see, remark · To what, where: new birds, tree
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 birds | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 new | advmod |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 high | punct |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 high | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 14 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remarked | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 remarked | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remarked | nsubj |
| 18 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | some new birds | a tree | yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | bird | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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/pg3027/35/10/