The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 176
“I know how to obey orders,” he said, “and these are as plain as the nose on my face!”
Who acts: marriage, these · What happens: know, obey, say, be · To what, where: orders, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, these), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 obey | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 obey | mark |
| 6 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 obey | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plain | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 plain | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plain | cc |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 plain | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 plain | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 plain | advmod |
| 18 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nose | det |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plain | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plain | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 plain | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | marriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | to-infinitive | orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | marriage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | these | my face | as the nose; plain property | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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