The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 64
I must take the bridle off,' said Peder. '
Who acts: I, Peder · What happens: take off, say · To what, where: bridle · 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 (I, Peder), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bridle | det |
| 5 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 10 | Peder | Peder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | must | I | the bridle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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