The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 94
'Not enough pepper,' said the giantess, gulping down large morsels, in order the hide the surprise she felt. '
Who acts: enough pepper, hide · What happens: say, gulp down, feel · To what, where: giantess, large morsels, order · 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 (enough pepper, hide), 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 | _ | 4 pepper | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 enough | advmod |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pepper | amod |
| 4 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pepper | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pepper | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giantess | det |
| 9 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gulping | punct |
| 11 | gulping | gulp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 large | advmod |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 morsels | amod |
| 14 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gulping | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 order | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gulping | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hide | det |
| 19 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 surprise | det |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 order | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 order | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | enough pepper | the giantess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giantess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | gulp down | gerund | enough pepper not said here | large morsels | order | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the hide | order not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
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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