The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
'You cannot make that cap, and you know it,' said Ian.
Who acts: You, Ian · What happens: not make, know, say · To what, where: cap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cap | det |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | You | that cap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Product | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | cap | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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