The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 59
However, she took no notice, but throwing the sack roughly on the ground, she exclaimed:
Who acts: troop · What happens: take, throw, exclaim · To what, where: notice, sack, ground
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 (troop), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 notice | det |
| 6 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 exclaimed | cc |
| 9 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 exclaimed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obj |
| 12 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 9 throwing | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throwing | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 18 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | troop | no notice | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | troop not said here | the sack | the ground | roughly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on ground=Destination | ||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | troop | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how 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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