The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 88

'Have you got it?' asked the ogre in a whisper, for the princess's ladies were standing as near as they dared to catch a glimpse of the beautiful jewels.

Who acts: you, ladies · What happens: get, ask, stand, dare, catch, glimpse · To what, where: rapture, ogre, whisper, glimpse, beautiful jewels

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, ladies), 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	_	4 got	punct
2	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 whisper	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whisper	det
13	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 standing	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 standing	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ladies	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 princess	case
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 standing	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	advcl
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 near	advmod
23	near	near	ADV	_	21 standing	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 dared	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dared	nsubj
26	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 catch	mark
28	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dared	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 glimpse	det
30	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 catch	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 jewels	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 jewels	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 jewels	amod
34	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 glimpse	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	you	rapture			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	you not said here	the ogre	a whisper		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ogre=Recipient
3	stand	past · progressive	the princess's ladies			near property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dare	past	ladies = lady				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	catch	to-infinitive	ladies = lady not said here	a glimpse of the beautiful jewels			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
6	glimpse			the beautiful jewels			nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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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