The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 29
'Oh, something quite impossible; and I hope you will put the princess out of your head,' she replied.
Who acts: I, you, princess · What happens: hope, put, reply · To what, where: princess, head · 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 (I, you, princess), 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 | _ | 6 impossible | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 impossible | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 impossible | nsubj |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 impossible | advmod |
| 6 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hope | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 impossible | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | aux |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hope | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 replied | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 replied | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | future | you | the princess | your head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme out head=Destination | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | princess | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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