The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 40
And, wonderful to say, not a drop of water fell from her clothes.
Who acts: drop · What happens: say, fall · To what, where: clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wonderful | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonderful | csubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drop | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 drop | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drop | det |
| 9 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | nmod |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 clothes | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | a drop of water | drop's clothes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clothes=Initial_Location |
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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