The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 28
'Yes,' answered the young man, who wished to please her, 'and in return for your good dinner I will see if I cannot restore your sight; for I was taught in the art of healing by the best medicine man in the tribe.'
Who acts: young man, I, best medicine man, your · What happens: answer, wish, please, see, not restore, teach · To what, where: young man, woman, return, sight, I, art
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 (young man, I, best medicine man, your), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 please | mark |
| 13 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wished | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 please | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 see | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 return | case |
| 19 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 dinner | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dinner | amod |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | nmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 please | conj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 restore | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 restore | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 restore | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 restore | advmod |
| 31 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 see | advcl |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sight | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 restore | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 taught | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 taught | mark |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 taught | aux:pass |
| 38 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 restore | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 art | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 art | det |
| 41 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 taught | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 healing | case |
| 43 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 art | nmod |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 man | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 man | det |
| 46 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 man | amod |
| 47 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 man | compound |
| 48 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 taught | obl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 tribe | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 tribe | det |
| 51 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 man | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | the young man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | please not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | future | I | return for your good dinner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not restore a condition, not said to happen | can | I | your sight | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 6 | teach speech: other | past · passive | the best medicine man in the tribe | I | the art of healing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 7 | sight | your | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
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