The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 51
'There seems nothing in the world you can do,' said the old woman, and left her to herself.
Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: seem, do, say, leave · To what, where: nothing, world, woman · 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 (you, old 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 | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 seems | expl |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 seems | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seems | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 herself | case |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 left | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | nothing | the world; there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | do | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | the old woman not said here | woman | woman | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to herself=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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