The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 62
'It will look best here--no, here,' she said, setting it first on one piece of furniture and then on another. '
Who acts: place, girl · What happens: look, say, set · To what, where: place, one piece · 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 (place, 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 look | advmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 8 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 look | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 setting | punct |
| 16 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 setting | obj |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 setting | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 piece | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 piece | nummod |
| 21 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 setting | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 furniture | case |
| 23 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 piece | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 another | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 another | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 another | case |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 here | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | future | place | here | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set | gerund | girl not said here | place | one piece of furniture | first property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on piece=Destination |
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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