The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 40
Months passed in this manner, when, one day, the mistress called the girl to her.
Who acts: Months, mistress · What happens: pass, call · To what, where: manner, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Months, mistress), 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 | Months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 manner | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 manner | det |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 when | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 passed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 day | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mistress | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mistress | det |
| 13 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | appos |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mistress | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Months | this manner | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the mistress not said here | the girl | girl | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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