The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 31
'You poor little things,' said the girl, stroking them. '
Who acts: You · What happens: thing, say, stroke · To what, where: girl, girls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 5 things | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 things | nsubj |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 things | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stroking | punct |
| 12 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stroking | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thing | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stroke | gerund | girls = girl | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer |
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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