The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 45
For many months I was as happy as a girl could be, especially when I had a little son to play with.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, have, play · To what, where: little son
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 happy | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 be | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 be | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 son | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 son | amod |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 play | mark |
| 22 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 play | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | month | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | I | a little son | especially property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «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.
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