The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 50
There is only Ian, the soldier's son, who can do this, and he is but now sixteen years old.
Who acts: Ian, son · What happens: be, do · To what, where: this
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, son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 Ian | advmod |
| 4 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 soldier | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ian | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 son | acl:relcl |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 old | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 old | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 old | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 old | cop |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 old | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 sixteen | advmod |
| 21 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 old | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Ian | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | can | the soldier's son | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Ian | year | old property | tree rules |
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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