The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 90
At dawn next morning Gille Mairtean said to Ian Direach:
Who acts: Gille · What happens: say · To what, where: Ian · 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 (Gille), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gille | flat |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Ian | case |
| 9 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ian | flat |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gille | Ian | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ian=Recipient |
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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