The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 125

'Oh, thank you, thank you,' he cried, skipping round with joy. '

Who acts: leather · What happens: thank, cry, skip · To what, where: you

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 (leather), 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 thank	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 skipping	punct
14	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 skipping	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 joy	case
17	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skipping	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	leather			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	skip	gerund	leather not said here		with joy; round property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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