The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 92
'You sold your dead wife?' cried the people.
Who acts: You · What happens: sell, cry · To what, where: dead wife, people
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), 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 sold | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sold | nsubj |
| 3 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sold | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sold | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sold | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | You | your dead wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
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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