The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 108
Farewell, for I am going away again and cannot tell when I may return.
Who acts: I · What happens: go away, not tell, return · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 6 going | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Farewell | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tell | advmod |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 return | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 return | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | aux |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present · progressive | I | again | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | can | I not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | may | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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