The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 17
'Give me the money, and take the ugly little box off to the outhouse,' cried the woman, beside herself with rage, and the girl, quite frightened at her violence, hastened away, with her precious box clasped to her bosom.
Who acts: you, precious box, girl · What happens: give, take off, cry, frighten, hasten away, clasp · To what, where: money, me, ugly little box, woman, violence
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, precious box, girl), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 10 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 box | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 box | amod |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 outhouse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 outhouse | det |
| 16 | outhouse | outhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 herself | punct |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 cried | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 rage | case |
| 26 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 girl | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 girl | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 girl | det |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 frightened | punct |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 frightened | advmod |
| 33 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Give | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 violence | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 violence | nmod:poss |
| 36 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 frightened | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hastened | punct |
| 38 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 frightened | conj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 hastened | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 clasped | punct |
| 41 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 45 clasped | mark |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 box | nmod:poss |
| 43 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 box | amod |
| 44 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 clasped | nsubj |
| 45 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 hastened | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 bosom | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 48 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 clasped | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the money | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 2 | take off | infinitive | you not said here | the ugly little box | to the outhouse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | the woman | beside woman; with rage | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||
| 4 | frighten | participle | girl's violence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | hasten away | participle | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | clasp | past | girl's precious box | to girl's bosom | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to bosom=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | bosom | girl | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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