The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 104
'Well, where is the silver?' asked the ogre, who was awaiting him.
Who acts: silver, ogre · What happens: be, ask, await · To what, where: silver, ogre, man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver, ogre), 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 | _ | 7 silver | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 silver | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 silver | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 silver | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 silver | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 silver | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 silver | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 silver | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ogre | det |
| 12 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 awaiting | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 awaiting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 awaiting | aux |
| 16 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ogre | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awaiting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the silver | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the silver | the ogre | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ogre=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | await | past · progressive | the ogre | man | 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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