The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 26
Besides, she is a great strong girl, and a little rain will not hurt her, while my daughter would be sure to catch a bad cold.'
Who acts: mother, little rain, daughter · What happens: be, not hurt, catch · To what, where: great strong girl, mother, bad cold
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, little rain, daughter), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 8 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 girl | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurt | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rain | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rain | amod |
| 13 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurt | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hurt | advmod |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 girl | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hurt | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 sure | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sure | cop |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hurt | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 catch | mark |
| 26 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sure | xcomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cold | det |
| 28 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cold | amod |
| 29 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 catch | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | mother | a great strong girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | future | a little rain | mother | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | would | my daughter | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | to-infinitive | my daughter not said here | a bad cold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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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