The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 87
'Plainly I see that you have taken no heed to my words, Ian Direach,' spoke the fox. '
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: see, take, speak, word · To what, where: heed, words, fox · 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 (I, you, my), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 taken | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 heed | det |
| 10 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ian | punct |
| 15 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 words | appos |
| 16 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ian | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fox | det |
| 21 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | you | no heed | my words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to word=Destination | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | I not said here | the fox | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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