The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 56
Well, in the morning there was the horse; Kirsten had never seen so find an animal. '
Who acts: Kirsten · What happens: not see, be · 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 (Kirsten), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 11 | Kirsten | Kirsten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 find | csubj:pass |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 find | advmod |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Kirsten | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | find property | tree rules |
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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