The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 12
Now the smell and touch of the flowers had made the queen sick with longing for her home, and she told the frog that she would certainly die if she did not manage to escape somehow.
Who acts: queen, flowers · What happens: make, long, tell, die, not manage, not escape · To what, where: smell, frog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, flowers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 touch | cc |
| 5 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smell | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smell | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 queen | amod |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 longing | mark |
| 15 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sick | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 longing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 frog | det |
| 24 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 die | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 die | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 die | aux |
| 28 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 29 die | advmod |
| 29 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 told | xcomp |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 manage | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 manage | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 manage | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 manage | advmod |
| 34 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 die | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 escape | mark |
| 36 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 manage | xcomp |
| 37 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 36 escape | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the smell of the flowers and touch | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary queen=Product | ||||
| 2 | long | gerund | for queen's home | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for home=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | queen | the frog | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | die not said to happen | would | queen | certainly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | not manage a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | queen | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not escape | to-infinitive | queen not said here | somehow property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | smell | the flowers | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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