The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 89
'Yes, here,' she answered, slipping the stone from her sash and placing it among the rest.
Who acts: princess · What happens: answer, slip, place · To what, where: stone, sash, rest
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 (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 | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 here | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slipping | punct |
| 10 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipping | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sash | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sash | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipping | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placing | cc |
| 17 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 slipping | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placing | obj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 rest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | slip | gerund | princess not said here | the stone | from princess's sash | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient from sash=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | place | gerund | princess not said here | sash | the rest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme among rest=Destination |
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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