The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 40
'Well, let us give her a wreath of flowers that will never fade as long as she wears it,' cried another.
Who acts: you, us, flowers, stepmother · What happens: let, give, not fade, wear, cry · To what, where: us, wreath, stepmother, another
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, us, flowers, stepmother), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wreath | det |
| 9 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wreath | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fade | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fade | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 fade | advmod |
| 15 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 fade | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wears | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wears | nsubj |
| 20 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 long | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wears | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wears | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wears | conj |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 cried | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | us not said here | a wreath of flowers | stepmother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wreath=Theme | |||
| 3 | not fade | future | flowers | long property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wear | present | stepmother | Wreath | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | stepmother not said here | another | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=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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