The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 127
'I have heard the fame of your majesty's wisdom, and I have travelled from far to ask your counsel.
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, travell, ask · To what, where: fame, counsel
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fame | det |
| 6 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wisdom | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 majesty | case |
| 11 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fame | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 travelled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 travelled | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 travelled | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 travelled | aux |
| 16 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 far | case |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 travelled | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 travelled | advcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 22 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ask | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | the fame of your majesty's wisdom | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fame=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | travell | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | your counsel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent counsel=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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