The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 71
'Oh, my lovely princess, why did we ever leave home?' cried she. '
Who acts: we, lovely princess · What happens: leave, cry · To what, where: home, lady
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 (we, lovely princess), 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 | _ | 6 princess | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 princess | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 princess | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 leave | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 leave | advmod |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 princess | parataxis |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | we | home | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | my lovely princess | lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
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