The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 119
But at these words the maid shook her head, and answered gently:
Who acts: maid · What happens: shake, answer · To what, where: head, words
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 (maid), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 answered | cc |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | parataxis |
| 13 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the maid | maid's head | this words | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at word=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | gently property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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