The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
'You did not heed my words,' he said gravely.
Who acts: You, accident, my · What happens: not heed, say, word · To what, where: words · 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, accident, my), 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 | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heed | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | past · do-support | You | my words | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | accident | gravely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/70/