The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 104
'Could you make me a pair like them?' asked the panther eagerly.
Who acts: you · What happens: make, ask · To what, where: pair, me, panther · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 make | punct |
| 2 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 panther | det |
| 14 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | you | a pair | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary pair=Product | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the panther | eagerly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent panther=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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