The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 89
But she had no power on the water, and turned angrily into the hut, muttering to herself all the while:
Who acts: witch · What happens: have, turn, mutter · To what, where: power, water, hut, witch
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 (witch), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hut | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hut | det |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 muttering | punct |
| 17 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 turned | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 herself | case |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 muttering | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 while | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 while | det |
| 22 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 muttering | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | witch | no power | the water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the hut | angrily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hut=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | witch | while | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
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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