The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 54
'I fear they are too costly for me,' she said carelessly; 'and besides, I have hardly need of any more jewels just now.'
Who acts: I, ladies, princess · What happens: fear, be, say, have, need · 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, ladies, 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 | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fear | nsubj |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 costly | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 costly | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 costly | advmod |
| 7 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fear | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 costly | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | parataxis |
| 14 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 18 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 21 have | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 besides | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | conj |
| 22 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 23 need | advmod |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 jewels | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 jewels | det |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 jewels | amod |
| 27 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 need | obl |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 now | advmod |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 need | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | ladies = lady | for me; costly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | princess | carelessly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | need | present | I not said here | now | of any more jewels; hardly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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