The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 9
'It sounds like the noise of Ian, the soldier's son,' said he; 'but as yet he is only sixteen years old.
Who acts: chain, man, Ian · What happens: sound, say, be, noise · 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 (chain, man, Ian), 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 sounds | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 noise | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounds | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ian | case |
| 8 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 noise | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 soldier | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ian | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounds | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 old | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 old | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 old | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 yet | case |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 old | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 old | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 old | cop |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 sixteen | advmod |
| 26 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 old | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounds | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | chain | like the noise of Ian | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | man | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | noise | Ian | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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