The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 11
'Here is the crown you asked for,' she said; and this time the giant could not help crying out with admiration.
Who acts: crown, parrot, time · What happens: be, ask, say, not help, cry out · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown, parrot, time), 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 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 asked | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 asked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | advcl |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 help | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 crying | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 admiration | case |
| 25 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the crown | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not help | could | this time the giant | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express not said to happen | gerund | this time the giant not said here | with admiration | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with admiration=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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