The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 101
'Oh, is it you?' asked the little creature; 'how strange that we should meet so far from home!'
Who acts: rustle, you, we · What happens: be, ask, meet · To what, where: you, little creature, home
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rustle, you, we), 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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 you | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 you | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 you | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 strange | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 strange | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 strange | advmod |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 meet | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 meet | aux |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 strange | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 far | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 meet | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meet | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 strange | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rustle | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | you | the little creature | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | meet | should | we | home | far property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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/pg3027/18/101/