The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 122
Jack shouted with delight, but Martin, who was in a bad temper, said sharply:
Who acts: Jack, Martin · What happens: shout, be, say · To what, where: bad temper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Martin), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 delight | case |
| 4 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 7 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 temper | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 temper | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 temper | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 temper | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 temper | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 temper | amod |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Martin | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Martin | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouted | conj |
| 17 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Jack | with delight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Martin | a bad temper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Martin | sharply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
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