The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 18
'I have brought you the king of France's daughter,' said Ian Direach.
Who acts: I, Ian · What happens: bring, say · To what, where: king, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ian), 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 brought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 France | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ian | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect | I | the king of France's daughter | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination king=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ian | 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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