The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 40

'Why I was up that river only a few hours ago!' cried the tunny; 'and as I was coming back something fell into my ear, and there it is still, for I went to sleep, when I got home and forgot all about it.

Who acts: few hours, I, something, tunny · What happens: be, cry, come back, fall, go, sleep · To what, where: river, tunny, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few hours, I, something, tunny), 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 was	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 was	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 river	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hours	csubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 hours	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hours	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hours	amod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cried	nsubj
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 hours	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 hours	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 hours	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tunny	det
17	tunny	tunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 coming	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 coming	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 coming	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 coming	aux
24	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 cried	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 coming	advmod
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 coming	ccomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 ear	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ear	nmod:poss
30	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 is	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 is	expl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 is	nsubj
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	conj
36	still	still	ADV	_	35 is	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 went	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 sleep	mark
42	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 went	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 got	punct
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 got	advmod
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 got	nsubj
46	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 went	conj
47	home	home	ADV	_	46 got	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 forgot	cc
49	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 got	conj
50	all	all	ADV	_	52 it	advmod
51	about	about	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 forgot	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that river				tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a few hours	the tunny				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunny=Topic
3	come back	past · progressive	I					tree rules
4	fall	past	something				into my ear result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ear=Result
5	be	present	tunny		there	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sleep	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	past	I				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	forget	past	I not said here				about tunny	tree rules

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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