The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 77
'But if you are a fairy, how was it that you were so nearly slain by the crow?' said the queen, wrinkling her forehead.
Who acts: you, fairy · What happens: be, slay, say, wrinkle · To what, where: fairy, kingdom, queen, forehead · 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 (you, fairy), 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 fairy | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fairy | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fairy | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fairy | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fairy | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fairy | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 it | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fairy | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 slain | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 slain | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 slain | aux |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 slain | advmod |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 slain | advmod |
| 17 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 it | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 crow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crow | det |
| 20 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slain | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wrinkling | punct |
| 27 | wrinkling | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 said | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 29 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wrinkling | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | kingdom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | slay | past · passive | you | by the crow; nearly property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a fairy | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wrinkle | gerund | a fairy not said here | Fairy's forehead | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient |
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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