The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 2
Stretching himself on the sand, he said slowly to Andras:
Who acts: he · What happens: stretch, say · To what, where: himself, sand, Andras · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | Stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Stretching | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sand | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stretching | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stretching | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Andras | case |
| 11 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | gerund | he not said here | himself = he | the sand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | he | Andras | slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to andras=Recipient |
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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