The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 40
'It is you who have given us back our life; you, you!' they cried; and fell to weeping from very joy.
Who acts: shape, scales · What happens: be, give back, cry, fall, weep · To what, where: you, us, joy
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 (shape, scales), 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 | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 given | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cried | advcl |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 given | iobj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 you | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 given | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 given | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cried | conj |
| 23 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 24 weeping | mark |
| 24 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 fell | advcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 joy | advmod |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 weeping | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | shape | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give back | present · perfect · passive | you | us | you obl; you obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | scales = scale | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | scales = scale not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | scales = scale not said here | joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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