The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 79
'I live in a hut on the edge of the forest,' she answered, blushing, for she had never spoken to a prince before. '
Who acts: I, horse · What happens: live, answer, blush, not speak · To what, where: hut · 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 (I, horse), 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 live | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hut | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hut | det |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hut | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blushing | punct |
| 18 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 answered | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spoken | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 spoken | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spoken | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spoken | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 spoken | advmod |
| 24 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 answered | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 prince | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spoken | obl |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 spoken | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | I | a hut on the edge of the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blush | gerund | horse not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | past · perfect | horse | to a prince; before property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to prince=Co-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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