The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 35
'Ah, you are not dead after all,' cried they; 'and have found a wife to your liking, though you would have none of our girls.
Who acts: you, village · What happens: not be, cry, find, have · To what, where: ', none · Speech: someone speaks here
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, village), 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 | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 dead | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dead | advmod |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 dead | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 found | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ' | cc |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 liking | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 liking | nmod:poss |
| 23 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 found | conj |
| 29 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 28 have | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 girls | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 girls | nmod:poss |
| 32 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 none | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | after all | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | village | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect · passive | ' | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme wife=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | have | would | you | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
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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