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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 17

And the voice spoke truly, for, a few days after, when the frog peeped in at the door she found the most beautiful baby in the world lying by the side of the queen.

Who acts: voice, frog, beautiful baby · What happens: speak, peep in, find, lie · To what, where: beautiful baby, world · 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 (voice, frog, beautiful baby), 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

ccdetnsubjadvmodpunctcasepunctdetamodobl:unmarkedadvmodpunctadvmoddetnsubjconjcompound:prtcasedetoblnsubjacl:relcldetadvmodamodobjcasedetnmodaclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootAndCCONJtheDETvoiceNOUNspokeVERBtrulyADV,PUNCTforADP,PUNCTaDETfewADJdaysNOUNafterADV,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETfrogNOUNpeepedVERBinADPatADPtheDETdoorNOUNshePRONfoundVERBtheDETmostADVbeautifulADJbabyNOUNinADPtheDETworldNOUNlyingVERBbyADPtheDETsideNOUNofADPtheDETqueenNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 spokecc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 voicedet
3voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing4 spokensubj
4spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5trulytrulyADV_4 spokeadvmod
6,,PUNCT_11 dayspunct
7forforADP_11 dayscase
8,,PUNCT_7 forpunct
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 daysdet
10fewfewADJDegree=Pos11 daysamod
11daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur4 spokeobl:unmarked
12afterafterADV_11 daysadvmod
13,,PUNCT_17 peepedpunct
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 peepedadvmod
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 frogdet
16frogfrogNOUNNumber=Sing17 peepednsubj
17peepedpeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 spokeconj
18ininADP_17 peepedcompound:prt
19atatADP_21 doorcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 doordet
21doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing17 peepedobl
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 foundnsubj
23foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 dooracl:relcl
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 babydet
25mostmostADVDegree=Sup26 beautifuladvmod
26beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos27 babyamod
27babybabyNOUNNumber=Sing23 foundobj
28ininADP_30 worldcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 worlddet
30worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing27 babynmod
31lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger27 babyacl
32bybyADP_34 sidecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 sidedet
34sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing31 lyingobl
35ofofADP_37 queencase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 queendet
37queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing34 sidenmod
38..PUNCT_4 spokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: otherpastthe voicedaytruly propertyvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2peep inpastthe frogat the doorvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
3findpastvoicethe beautiful babythe worldvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic
4liegerundthe beautiful baby not said hereby the side of the queenvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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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