The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 97
'Is there no hut or cave we could go into?' asked she.
Who acts: we, hut · What happens: be, go, ask · To what, where: hut, princess
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, hut), 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 | _ | 5 hut | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hut | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 hut | det |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 cave | cc |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hut | conj |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hut | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 go | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hut | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hut | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no hut or cave | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | could | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | no hut or cave | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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