The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 7
'This is the casket that pleases me best, mistress,' said the girl, carrying it into the house.
Who acts: This, casket · What happens: be, please, say, carry · To what, where: casket, me, mistress, house · 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, casket), 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 | _ | 5 casket | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 casket | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 casket | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 casket | det |
| 5 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pleases | nsubj |
| 7 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 casket | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pleases | obj |
| 9 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 pleases | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mistress | punct |
| 11 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 casket | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 casket | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 casket | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carrying | punct |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carrying | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carrying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the casket and mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | please | present | the casket and mistress | me | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the casket and mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the casket and mistress not said here | mistress | the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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