The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 97
Who taught you such wisdom?' exclaimed the lion, looking at him admiringly.
What happens: teach, exclaim, look · To what, where: such wisdom, you, lion
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 taught | obj |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wisdom | amod |
| 5 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taught | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 taught | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 exclaimed | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | obl |
| 15 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | such wisdom | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wisdom=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the lion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | at lion; admiringly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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