The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 35
But, low as she spoke, the giantess caught the words, and began to laugh.
Who acts: queen, giantess · What happens: speak, catch, begin, laugh · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, giantess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 low | punct |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 caught | advcl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoke | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 low | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giantess | det |
| 9 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 caught | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 laugh | mark |
| 17 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | the giantess | the words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the giantess not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive | the giantess not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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