The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 49
'No, he must not see me for the first time here,' she thought, and instantly began to plan how to get rid of him.
Who acts: light, darkness · What happens: not see, think, begin, plan, get · To what, where: me
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 (light, darkness), 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 | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 began | advmod |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 plan | mark |
| 23 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 get | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 plan | ccomp |
| 27 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rid | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | must | light | me | here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | darkness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | darkness not said here | instantly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | plan | to-infinitive | darkness not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | darkness not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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