The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 96
Suddenly the younger sister, who was a little in front, gave a cry of surprise.
Who acts: younger sister, surprise · What happens: be, give, cry · To what, where: front, cry
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 (younger sister, surprise), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 sister | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 little | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 little | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 little | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 little | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cry | det |
| 15 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 surprise | case |
| 17 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cry | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the younger sister | front | little property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | the younger sister | a cry of surprise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry | surprise | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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