The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
'If there are so many jewels in that little black thing, this big red one will hold twice the number,' she said to herself; and snatching it up she set off on her road home without even going to bid farewell to her mistress.
Who acts: this, many jewels, girl · What happens: be, one, hold, say, snatch up, set off · To what, where: many jewels, little black thing, number, girl, road, farewell · 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 (this, many jewels, 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 | _ | 7 jewels | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 are | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 jewels | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jewels | amod |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 thing | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 thing | nsubj |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jewels | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 one | nsubj |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | aux |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 hold | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 herself | case |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 set | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 set | cc |
| 31 | snatching | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 set | csubj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 snatching | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 snatching | compound:prt |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 set | nsubj |
| 35 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | parataxis |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 set | compound:prt |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 road | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 road | nmod:poss |
| 39 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 35 set | advmod |
| 41 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 43 going | mark |
| 42 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 going | advmod |
| 43 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 set | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 bid | mark |
| 45 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 going | xcomp |
| 46 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bid | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 mistress | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 49 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bid | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many jewels | little black thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | one | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hold | future | many jewels | the number | twice property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | girl | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | snatch up | gerund | number | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | set off | past | girl | girl's road | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | go | gerund | girl not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | bid | to-infinitive | girl not said here | farewell | to girl's mistress | tree rules |
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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