The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 84
And, uttering a strange noise, she struck the ground thrice with her foot.
Who acts: frog · What happens: utter, strike · To what, where: strange noise, ground thrice
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 (frog), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struck | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttering | punct |
| 3 | uttering | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 struck | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 noise | amod |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttering | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttering | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thrice | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrice | compound |
| 12 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | gerund | frog not said here | a strange noise | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent noise=Topic | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | frog | the ground thrice | with frog's foot | 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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