The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 10
‘Oh, it is Fortune that has sent you to me,’ he said.
Who acts: hunger, Irishman · What happens: be, send, say · To what, where: Fortune, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunger, Irishman), 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 | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 Fortune | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Fortune | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fortune | cop |
| 6 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hunger | Fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | present · perfect · passive | Fortune | you | to me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Irishman | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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