The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 47
'Oh, it needs no pondering,' cried the queen joyfully, holding up her clasped hands, and making Muffette do likewise, in token of gratitude.
Who acts: matter, Muffette · What happens: need, ponder, cry, hold up, clasp, make · To what, where: queen, clasped hands, Muffette, token
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 (matter, Muffette), 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 | _ | 5 needs | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 needs | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 pondering | det |
| 7 | pondering | ponder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 needs | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 needs | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 holding | punct |
| 15 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 holding | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hands | amod |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 holding | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 making | cc |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 23 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 making | obj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 making | xcomp |
| 25 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 token | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 token | case |
| 28 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gratitude | case |
| 30 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 token | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | matter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ponder not said to happen | gerund | matter not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the queen | joyfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hold up | gerund | queen's clasped hands | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | |||||
| 5 | clasp | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | make | gerund | Muffette | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do | infinitive | Muffette not said here | token of gratitude | likewise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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