The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 47
'See what a trumpery thing it is!' cried the stepmother; 'and now take your supper and go to bed, for it is near upon midnight.'
Who acts: window · What happens: see, be, cry, take, go · To what, where: trumpery thing, stepmother, supper, bed · 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 (window), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 thing | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | trumpery | trumpery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 is | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stepmother | det |
| 13 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 supper | nmod:poss |
| 20 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 take | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 midnight | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 midnight | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 midnight | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 midnight | cop |
| 29 | near | near | ADV | _ | 31 midnight | advmod |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 midnight | case |
| 31 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | what trumpery thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | window | what trumpery thing not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the stepmother | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | your supper | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | is | present | window | for midnight; near property | tree rules |
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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