The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
And Ian took no heed, and only said: 'How can I bring him home?'
Who acts: Ian, I · What happens: take, say, bring · To what, where: heed, Ian · 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 (Ian, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 heed | det |
| 5 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 12 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 bring | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ian | no heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ian not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | can | I | Ian | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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