The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 17

'He must surely be ill or dead,' thought the poor girl, who even now was only sixteen. '

Who acts: king, poor girl · What happens: be, think · To what, where: poor girl, sixteen

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, poor 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	aux
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 dead	cc
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ill	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sixteen	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sixteen	nsubj
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 now	advmod
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sixteen	advmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sixteen	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 sixteen	advmod
21	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 girl	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	king			ill, surely property	tree rules
2	be		king not said here				tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	king not said here	the poor girl			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
4	is a	past	the poor girl	sixteen	now		tree rules

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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