The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 13

Everyone in the town calls me Gilguerillo[FN#1], because, when I was little, I went singing through the world in spite of my misfortunes.

Who acts: Everyone, I · What happens: call, be, go, sing, spite · To what, where: me, world, misfortunes · 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 (Everyone, 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 calls	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
5	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 calls	obj
7	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 calls	xcomp
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 #	punct
9	FN	FN	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 #	compound
10	#	#	SYM	Number=Sing	7 Gilguerillo	appos
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 #	flat
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 #	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 little	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 little	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 little	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 little	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 little	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 little	cop
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calls	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 little	conj
23	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 went	xcomp
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 singing	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 spite	case
28	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 singing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 misfortunes	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 misfortunes	nmod:poss
31	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spite	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 calls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Everyone		me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is	past	I				little property	tree rules
3	go	past	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sing speech: express	gerund	I not said here			the world	in spite of my misfortunes	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Location
5	spite			my misfortunes				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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