The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 111
'I wonder if she is crying still, and what is the matter with her!
Who acts: I, girl · What happens: wonder, cry, be · To what, where: matter
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 crying | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crying | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crying | aux |
| 7 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 crying | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 matter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 matter | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 matter | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wonder | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 matter | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | girl | still | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the matter | with girl | tree rules |
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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