The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 17
'Ah, how clever you are,' cried the queen, clasping her in her arms.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, cry, clasp · To what, where: queen, arms
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 clever | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clasping | punct |
| 14 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clasping | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clasping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | |||||
| 3 | clasp | gerund | queen | queen's arms | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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