The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 58
[From Tales of the West Highlands.]
Who acts: West Highlands · What happens: tell · 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 (West Highlands), 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 | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Tales | case |
| 3 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Highlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Highlands | det |
| 6 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Highlands | compound |
| 7 | Highlands | Highlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tales | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | the West Highlands | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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