The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 12
'I have no parents; they died when I was six, sire,' replied the youth, modestly. '
Who acts: I, parents · What happens: have, die, be, reply · To what, where: parents, six, youth
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, parents), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 parents | det |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 six | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 six | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 six | cop |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 died | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sire | punct |
| 14 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 six | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 modestly | punct |
| 21 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 17 replied | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no parents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | past | parents = parent | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | I | six and sire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | parents = parent not said here | the youth | modestly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |
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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