The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 2
And with these words she vanished, leaving her hearers happier than they ever thought they could be again.
Who acts: fairy, hearers · What happens: vanish, leave, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, hearers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 vanished | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vanished | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 vanished | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hearers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 happier | nsubj |
| 11 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 leaving | conj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 thought | advmod |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happier | advcl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 again | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 again | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 again | cop |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | fairy | with this words | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | fairy not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | hearers = hearer | ever | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | could | hearers = hearer | again property | 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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