The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 18

'Didn't I say that fish would be delicious?' she cried; and plunging her spoon into the dish the girl helped herself to a large piece.

Who acts: I, fish, power, girl · What happens: not do, say, be, cry, plunge, help · To what, where: spoon, dish, power · 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 (I, fish, power, girl), 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 Did	punct
2	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Did	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Did	parataxis
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 delicious	mark
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delicious	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 delicious	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 delicious	cop
10	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 delicious	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 delicious	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 delicious	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 plunging	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 plunging	cc
17	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Did	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 spoon	nmod:poss
19	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plunging	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 dish	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dish	det
22	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plunging	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 helped	nsubj
25	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dish	acl:relcl
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 helped	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 piece	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 piece	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 piece	amod
30	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 helped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	fish			delicious property	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past	power				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	plunge	gerund		power's spoon	the dish		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spoon=Theme
6	help	past	the girl	power		to a large piece	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary

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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