The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 98
'I know that,' said Ian; 'but tell me where the giant is, that I may find him.'
Who acts: I, Ian, giant · What happens: know, say, tell, be, find · To what, where: that, me, Son · 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, Ian, giant), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 ; | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 where | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 where | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tell | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the giant | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | may | I | Son | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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