The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 35
And she never heard the words that followed her: 'You shall not have done this to me for nothing!'
Who acts: crone, words, You · What happens: not hear, follow, not do · To what, where: words, me, crone
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 (crone, words, You), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 done | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | conj |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 nothing | case |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 heard | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | crone | the words | me | for nothing | tree rules | ||
| 2 | follow | past | the words | crone | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | shall · perfect | You | vn act-114-1 «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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