The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 133
'You are the man,' said he; 'and I am he who loved your daughter, and became a gold ring on her finger.
Who acts: You, man, I · What happens: be, say, love, become · To what, where: man, daughter, gold ring · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, man, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 he | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 he | cop |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loved | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 became | cc |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ring | det |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ring | compound |
| 25 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 became | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 finger | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 finger | nmod:poss |
| 28 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ring | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | past | man | your daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | become | past | the man not said here | a gold ring on daughter's finger | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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