The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 39
'While you wear this shoe you will not feel the slightest pain,' said the doctor. '
Who acts: you · What happens: wear, not feel, say · To what, where: shoe, slightest pain, doctor · 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 (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 | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 2 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 wear | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 shoe | det |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 feel | advmod |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pain | det |
| 12 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 pain | amod |
| 13 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doctor | det |
| 18 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | you | this shoe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not feel | future | you | the slightest pain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the doctor | 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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