The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 102
When the necklace was finished she hung it round her neck, and called: 'Parrot, come to me!'
Who acts: Eagle, Parrot · What happens: finish, hang, call, come · To what, where: necklace, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, Parrot), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 necklace | det |
| 3 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hung | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hung | nsubj |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hung | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 17 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Parrot | punct |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 called | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the necklace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hang | past | Eagle | necklace | round Eagle's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | call speech: assert | past | Eagle not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | Parrot | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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