The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 53
'I am in search of a place,' replied the girl; and the woman smiled and said:
Who acts: I, search, woman · What happens: be, reply, smile, say · To what, where: search, girl · 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 (I, search, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 search | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 search | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 search | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 search | case |
| 5 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 search | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 search | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 search | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 smiled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smiled | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smiled | nsubj |
| 18 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 smiled | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | search | of a place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | search | the girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | the woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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