The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 75
'Excuse me, good knight' answered Eglantine, hardly glancing at him, 'but it is MY doe that is tied up here!
Who acts: wretch · What happens: excuse, answer, glance, be, tie up · To what, where: me, Eglantine, doe · 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 (wretch), 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 | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 2 | Excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Excuse | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knight | amod |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Excuse | obl |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excuse | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glancing | punct |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 glancing | advmod |
| 12 | glancing | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 glancing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ' | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 glancing | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 doe | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doe | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 doe | cop |
| 20 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 doe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tied | aux:pass |
| 24 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 doe | acl:relcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 tied | compound:prt |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 tied | advmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse | infinitive | me | good knight obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Eglantine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | glance | gerund | at doe; hardly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | wretch | MY doe | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tie up | present · passive | MY doe | here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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