The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 95
O my dear princess!' cried she; and again the white doe rubbed her head against her, for thought the spiteful fairy had taken away her power of speech, she had not deprived her of her reason!
Who acts: dear princess, white doe · What happens: cry, rub, think, take away, not deprive · To what, where: thought, head, spiteful fairy, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dear princess, white doe), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 princess | discourse |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 princess | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 princess | amod |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 princess | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 princess | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rubbed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rubbed | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 doe | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doe | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 doe | amod |
| 14 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbed | nsubj |
| 15 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rubbed | obj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rubbed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 thought | mark |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rubbed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fairy | det |
| 24 | spiteful | spiteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fairy | amod |
| 25 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 taken | aux |
| 27 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 taken | advmod |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 power | nmod:poss |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taken | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 speech | case |
| 32 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 power | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 deprived | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 deprived | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 deprived | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 deprived | advmod |
| 37 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cried | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 deprived | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 reason | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 reason | nmod:poss |
| 41 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 deprived | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | my dear princess | thought | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | the white doe | princess's head | against princess | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme against she=Destination | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the white doe not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take away | past · perfect · passive | the spiteful fairy | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not deprive | past · perfect · passive | princess | of princess's reason | tree rules |
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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