The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 14
'Oh, nonsense, mother; what power could a creature like that have over me?
Who acts: nonsense, that · What happens: creature, have
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 (nonsense, that), 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 nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 nonsense | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nonsense | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 creature | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 creature | nsubj |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creature | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 creature | aux |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nonsense | conj |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 creature | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature | could | nonsense and mother and a creature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | that | over me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
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