The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 71
'Dirty creatures!' repeated the daughter, and nothing else could she say.
Who acts: Dirty creatures, nothing · What happens: repeat, say · To what, where: daughter · 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 (Dirty creatures, nothing), 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 creatures | punct |
| 2 | Dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creatures | amod |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repeated | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 creatures | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 creatures | punct |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeated | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 say | nsubj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 nothing | advmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 repeated | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Dirty creatures | the daughter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | could | nothing | 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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