The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 91
'Ah, yes, that will do!' exclaimed the giant at last, his face brightening. '
Who acts: that, face · What happens: do, exclaim, brighten · To what, where: giant · 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 (that, face), 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 do | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 giant | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brightening | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brightening | nsubj |
| 19 | brightening | brighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 exclaimed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | brighten | gerund | giant's face | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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