The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 81
'Is that you, Pinkel?' cried she.
Who acts: you, Pinkel · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Pinkel, cloak
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, Pinkel), 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 | _ | 9 cried | 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 | cloak | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/81/