The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 36
'I am the horse,' she said, 'and the spells are broken'; and she and the youth went away together.
Who acts: I, horse · What happens: be, say, break, go away · To what, where: horse, spells · 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 (I, horse), 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 horse | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broken | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spells | det |
| 14 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 youth | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 she | conj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | present · passive | the spells | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go away | past | horse | away, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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