The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 128
A man in my country has buried his daughter alive because she loved a youth who was born a peasant.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: bury, love, bear · To what, where: man, youth
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 (daughter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 country | nmod:poss |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buried | aux |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obj |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 buried | xcomp |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 loved | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buried | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 born | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 born | aux:pass |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 youth | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 born | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present · perfect · passive | a man in my country | alive property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme daughter=Destination | ||||
| 2 | love | past | daughter | a youth | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | a youth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary peasant=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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