The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 27
'I am sure there is a man here; tell me, are you not my grandson?'
Who acts: I, man, you · What happens: be, tell, not be · To what, where: me, grandson · 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, man, you), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 is | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grandson | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grandson | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 grandson | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 grandson | advmod |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a man | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | you | my grandson | 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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