The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 18
The young man guessed what was in her heart, and replied with a smile:
Who acts: young man · What happens: guess, be, reply · To what, where: heart · 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 (young 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 heart | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heart | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 replied | cc |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 guessed | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 smile | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | the young man | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | mother's heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | with a smile | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with smile=Eventuality |
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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