The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 36
'I spoke hastily; you are innocent,' said the old man; 'but now let the baboon do likewise.'
Who acts: I, you, old man · What happens: speak, be, say, let · To what, where: baboon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, old man), 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 | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 innocent | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 innocent | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 innocent | cop |
| 8 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoke | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 innocent | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 baboon | det |
| 21 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 likewise | aux |
| 23 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 19 let | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | I | hastily property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | innocent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | I not said here | the baboon | now | likewise property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baboon=Theme |
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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