The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 41
'Hold the cord while I look at him,' answered the hedgehog.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hold, look, answer · To what, where: cord, hedgehog
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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cord | det |
| 4 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hold | obj |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hedgehog | det |
| 14 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | the cord | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | I | at greyhound | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | you not said here | the hedgehog | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Eventuality |
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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