The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 99
A reindeer calf is the swiftest of all things living.
Who acts: reindeer calf, things · What happens: be, live
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer calf, things), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 calf | det |
| 2 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calf | compound |
| 3 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swiftest | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swiftest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swiftest | det |
| 6 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swiftest | obl |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 things | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swiftest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a reindeer calf | of all things; swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | all things not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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