The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 6

'That maiden is strangely like my wife,' thought he; 'I must see her closer!

Who acts: maiden, wife, I · What happens: be, think, see · To what, where: length, wife

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 (maiden, wife, 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	_	8 wife	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wife	cop
5	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	8 wife	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 wife	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 see	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that maiden		like my wife; strangely property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	my wife	length		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	see	must	I	wife	close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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