The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 66
'Who are you,' cried Makoma, 'that pulls up the earth in this way?'
Who acts: you, that · What happens: be, cry, pull up · To what, where: you, earth, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pulls | nsubj |
| 12 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pulls | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulls | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulls | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulls | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull up | present | that | the earth | this way | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/66/