The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 24
'I certainly thought you took it from me; but here is some more.'
Who acts: I, you, more · What happens: think, take, be · To what, where: dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, more), 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 | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 here | cc |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 here | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | certainly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | you | dinner | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | some more | here property | 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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