The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 59
'See, mother, see what I have brought!' cried she, as she entered the cottage holding the casket in both hands.
Who acts: girl, cottage · What happens: see, bring, cry, enter, hold · To what, where: mother, girl, cottage, casket, hands · 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 (girl, cottage), 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 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 See | conj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | ccomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entered | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 entered | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cottage | det |
| 20 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obj |
| 21 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 cottage | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 casket | det |
| 23 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 holding | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 25 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 hands | det |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 holding | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect · passive | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | girl | the cottage | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination | ||||
| 6 | hold | gerund | the cottage not said here | the casket | both hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent casket=Theme in hand=Location |
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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