The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 11
'Oh, put it back, put it back!' implored the mother. '
What happens: put back, implore · To what, where: pity, mother
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: 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 put | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 put | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 implored | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 13 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 implored | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 implored | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | infinitive | pity | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||||
| 2 | put back | infinitive | pity | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||||
| 3 | implore | past | the mother | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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