The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 93
Now when the parrot had been a girl she had often heard of this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles that had been let into it.
Who acts: parrot, girl · What happens: be, hear, let · To what, where: girl, wonderful arch, Arch
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 (parrot, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 girl | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 girl | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parrot | det |
| 4 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 girl | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 girl | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 arch | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 arch | det |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arch | amod |
| 16 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stones | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stones | det |
| 19 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stones | amod |
| 20 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arch | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 marbles | cc |
| 22 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stones | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 let | obj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 let | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 let | aux:pass |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arch | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | the parrot | a girl | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | girl | a girl not said here | of this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles; often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | let | past · perfect · passive | this wonderful arch and the precious stones and marbles | Arch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme |
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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