The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 114
'You did not heed my counsel,' said she; 'and who knows if it is not too late to win over the sea?
Who acts: You, horse, door · What happens: not heed, say, know, not be, win · To what, where: counsel, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, horse, door), 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 | _ | 5 heed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 heed | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 heed | advmod |
| 5 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heed | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heed | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knows | cc |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 late | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 late | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 late | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 late | advmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 late | advmod |
| 22 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knows | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 win | mark |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 late | advcl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | past · do-support | You | my counsel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | door | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | win | to-infinitive | door not said here | the sea | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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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