The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 3
'Oh, how can you laugh!' replied the queen. '
Who acts: you · What happens: laugh, reply · To what, where: queen · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 laugh | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 laugh | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | can | you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the queen | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/3/