The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 50
The stepmother's heart was glad when she saw this, and she said quite mildly:
Who acts: heart, stepmother · What happens: be, see, say · To what, where: this · 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 (heart, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 stepmother | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | cop |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | conj |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 mildly | advmod |
| 16 | mildly | mildly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmother's heart | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | stepmother | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | stepmother | mildly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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