The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

'You dirty creatures,' cried she, 'get away at once, or I will throw stones at you!

Who acts: You, I · What happens: dirty, cry, get away, throw · To what, where: creatures, stepmother, stones

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, I), 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	_	3 dirty	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 dirty	nsubj
3	dirty	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dirty	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dirty	conj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 get	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 throw	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 throw	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 throw	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 throw	aux
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dirty	conj
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 throw	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 throw	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dirty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dirty	present	You	creatures		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	You not said here	stepmother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	get away	infinitive	You not said here		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	throw	future	I	stones	at you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at you=Destination

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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