The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 54
But Eglantine comforted her, and reminded her that in a short time all would be well.
Who acts: Eglantine · What happens: comfort, remind, be · To what, where: fairy, Eglantine
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 (Eglantine), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 comforted | cc |
| 2 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comforted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reminded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reminded | cc |
| 7 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reminded | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 time | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reminded | advcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | nmod |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 well | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 well | cop |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 all | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | Eglantine | fairy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | past | Eglantine not said here | Eglantine | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | would | well 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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