The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 41
Here she sat and thought and thought, and the next morning she went back to the queen and said:
Who acts: frog · What happens: sit, think, go back, say · 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 (frog), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 queen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | frog | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | frog not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | frog not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | frog | morning | to the queen result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | frog not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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