The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 18
'So the cap has kept its word,' cried the frog with delight. '
Who acts: cap · What happens: keep, cry, word · To what, where: cap, frog
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 (cap), 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 | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 word | nmod:poss |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 delight | case |
| 15 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect · passive | the cap | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme word=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the frog | with delight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic | ||||
| 3 | word | cap | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/18/