The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 83
'After all I needn't give it to the ogre,' thought she as she dropped off to sleep.
Who acts: I, princess · What happens: need, not give, think, drop off, sleep · To what, where: toy, ogre, princess
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, 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 | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 thought | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 give | advmod |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ogre | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ogre | det |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 dropped | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dropped | nsubj |
| 18 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 dropped | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dropped | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not give not said to happen | infinitive | I not said here | toy | the ogre | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ogre=Recipient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | princess | after all | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop off | past | princess | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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