The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 51
'Is there no way in which I can touch your heart?' asked the poor girl in despair.
Who acts: I, way · What happens: be, touch, ask · To what, where: way, heart, poor girl
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 (I, way), 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 | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 touch | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 touch | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 touch | aux |
| 10 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touch | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 touch | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 touch | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 despair | case |
| 20 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | touch | can | I | your heart | no way | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | no way | the poor girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/51/