The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 25
'What folly you talk!' cried the parents. '
Who acts: you, folly · What happens: folly, talk, cry · To what, where: folly, parents
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 (you, folly), 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 folly | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 folly | nsubj |
| 3 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 folly | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 folly | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 folly | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parents | det |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | folly | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | talk | present | you | folly not said here | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent folly=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | folly | the parents | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/21/25/