The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
'If it is so heavy bring it in two bits, of course,' said he.
Who acts: water, fox · What happens: be, bring, say · To what, where: water, two bits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, fox), 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 | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 heavy | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heavy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heavy | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 heavy | advmod |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bring | advcl |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bits | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 bits | nummod |
| 11 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 course | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | water | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | water | two bits | of course | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme of course=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fox | 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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