The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 14

'So, little worm! it is you who steal our treasures!' exclaimed the biggest. '

Who acts: little worm, you, our · What happens: be, steal, exclaim, treasure · To what, where: you, treasures, biggest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little worm, you, our), 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	_	11 steal	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	9 you	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worm	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worm	amod
5	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 you	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 worm	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 you	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 you	cop
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 steal	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 steal	nsubj
11	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 exclaimed	ccomp
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 treasures	nmod:poss
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 steal	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 steal	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 exclaimed	punct
16	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 biggest	det
18	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 exclaimed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 exclaimed	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	little worm	you	tree rules
2	steal	present	you	our treasures	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express	past		the biggest	tree rules
4	treasure		our		nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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