The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 66
He counted all except himself, and then cried out that somebody was missing!
Who acts: Weaver, somebody · What happens: count, cry out, be · To what, where: all
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 (Weaver, somebody), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 counted | nsubj |
| 2 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 counted | obj |
| 4 | except | except | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 counted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cried | advmod |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 counted | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 missing | mark |
| 12 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 missing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 missing | cop |
| 14 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | advcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | Weaver | all | except Weaver | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Weaver not said here | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | somebody | missing property | 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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