The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 4
'You are no better than the rest,' cried the ogre, and turned away in a rage.
Who acts: You · What happens: not be, cry, turn away · To what, where: ogre, rage
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 (You), 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 | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ogre | det |
| 13 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADP | _ | 16 turned | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rage | det |
| 20 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | You | than the rest; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | You not said here | the ogre | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Topic | ||||
| 3 | turn away | past | You not said here | a rage | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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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