The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 81
'The dinner of an emperor!' shouted Jack in a voice of thunder.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: shout · To what, where: Jack, voice
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 (dinner), 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 | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dinner | det |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dinner | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 emperor | punct |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thunder | case |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the dinner of a emperor | Jack | a voice of thunder | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Topic |
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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