The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 107
'Come quickly,' he said, 'or you will be frozen to death!'
Who acts: man · What happens: come, say, freeze · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 frozen | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 frozen | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 frozen | aux:pass |
| 14 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frozen | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 frozen | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 frozen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | freeze | future · passive | you | to death | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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