The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 85
'Is that you, Pinkel?' cried she; and the youth answered:
Who acts: you, Pinkel, youth · What happens: be, cry, answer · To what, where: Pinkel, heart
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pinkel, youth), 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 | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Pinkel | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Pinkel | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Pinkel | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 6 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pinkel | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 answered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | Pinkel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Pinkel | heart | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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