The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 102
She hoped that there was an end to the difficult tasks which had been set her; but in this she was mistaken, for one day the old woman appeared suddenly in the kitchen, and said to her:
Who acts: woman, end, this, old woman · What happens: hope, be, set, appear, say · To what, where: difficult tasks, kitchen, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, end, this, old woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hoped | nsubj |
| 2 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hoped | ccomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tasks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tasks | det |
| 10 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tasks | amod |
| 11 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 end | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 set | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tasks | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 mistaken | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 mistaken | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 mistaken | nsubj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 mistaken | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mistaken | cop |
| 23 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hoped | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 appeared | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 day | nummod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 appeared | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 woman | amod |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 appeared | nsubj |
| 31 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hoped | conj |
| 32 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 31 appeared | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 kitchen | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kitchen | det |
| 35 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 appeared | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hoped | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 said | obl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | woman | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a end to the difficult tasks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | the difficult tasks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is | past | this | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | appear | past | the old woman | the kitchen | day | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location | ||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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