The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 32
Well, as I have said, our frog was struck with the queen's sad face, and lost no time in asking her what was the reason.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, strike, lose, ask, be · To what, where: frog, reason · 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 (I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 struck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 struck | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 frog | nmod:poss |
| 9 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 struck | aux:pass |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 queen | case |
| 16 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 face | amod |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lost | cc |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 struck | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 asking | mark |
| 24 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 lost | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 reason | nmod:poss |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 reason | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 reason | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 reason | det |
| 29 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asking | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | our frog | with the queen's sad face | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with face=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | frog's reason | 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.
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