The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 8
'Oh, Eglantine! what should I have done if you had not followed me,' she cried.
Who acts: Eglantine · What happens: do, not follow, cry · To what, where: you
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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Eglantine | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Eglantine | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 done | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Eglantine | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 done | obj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 followed | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 followed | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 followed | advmod |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 done | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 followed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should · perfect | Eglantine | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not follow a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | you | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme i=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Eglantine | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/8/