The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 95

As the girl took it in her hands it suddenly spoke, as it had been taught to do, and uttered a compliment of the most delicate and charming sort, which made the princess flush with pleasure.

Who acts: girl, much, delicate sort · What happens: take, speak, teach, do, utter, make · To what, where: much, hands, compliment, princess flush, delicate sort · 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 (girl, much, delicate sort), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 girl	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spoke	nsubj
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 spoke	advmod
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hands	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taught	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 taught	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taught	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taught	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 taught	aux:pass
17	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 taught	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 uttered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 uttered	cc
22	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 compliment	det
24	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uttered	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	31 sort	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sort	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 delicate	advmod
28	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sort	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 charming	cc
30	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 delicate	conj
31	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 compliment	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sort	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 flush	det
36	princess	princess	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flush	amod
37	flush	flush	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 pleasure	case
39	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flush	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the girl	much	princess's hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location
2	speak speech: other	past	much	princess's hands not said here		suddenly property	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		much			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	to-infinitive	much not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	utter speech: other	past	the girl not said here	a compliment of the delicate sort			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent compliment=Topic
6	make	past	the delicate sort	the princess flush		with pleasure	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flush=Product
7	compliment			the delicate sort			nom compliment «communication transitive»: of=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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