The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 27

'I am tired of staying here,' grumbled a beautiful little creature, whose colours changed with every movement of her body, 'I want to see what is going on in the upper world.

Who acts: I, colours · What happens: be, stay, grumble, change, want, see · To what, where: beautiful little creature, upper world, body · 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 (I, colours), 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	_	4 tired	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 staying	mark
6	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 grumbled	advcl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 staying	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 staying	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 staying	punct
10	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 creature	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grumbled	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 changed	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 colours	nmod:poss
17	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 changed	nsubj
18	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 creature	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 movement	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 movement	det
21	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 body	nmod:poss
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 movement	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 changed	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 want	xcomp
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 going	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 going	aux
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 see	ccomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 going	compound:prt
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
37	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 world	amod
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			tired property	tree rules
2	stay	gerund			here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grumble speech: other	past	I not said here	a beautiful little creature			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Topic
4	change	past	colours			with every movement of Fish's body	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	go on	present · progressive			the upper world		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location
8	move			Fish's body			nom movement «act transitive»: of=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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