The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 74
'It is no night for my cloak,' she muttered; 'it would be covered with mud by the time I got back.'
Who acts: rain, cloak, I · What happens: be, mutter, cover, get back · To what, where: night, rain, time
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 (rain, cloak, I), 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 | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 night | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 muttered | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 cloak | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 muttered | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 muttered | nsubj |
| 12 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 covered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 covered | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 covered | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 covered | aux:pass |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 muttered | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mud | case |
| 20 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 muttered | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rain | no night | for my cloak | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | cloak | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cover | would · passive | rain | time | with mud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mud=Theme | |||
| 4 | get back | past | I | the time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
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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