The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 30
'Here is the cap,' said Ian drowsily, drawing it from under his pillow.
Who acts: cap · What happens: be, say, draw · To what, where: cap, pillow · 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 (cap), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cap | det |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cap | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cap | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | drowsily | drowsily | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawing | punct |
| 12 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drawing | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 pillow | case |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 pillow | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drawing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cap | drowsily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | the cap not said here | cap | Ian's pillow | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from pillow=Initial_Location |
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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