The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 65
And surely no ambassador had ever created such a sensation!
What happens: create · To what, where: ambassador
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 created | cc |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 ambassador | advmod |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 ambassador | det |
| 4 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 created | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 created | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 created | advmod |
| 7 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sensation | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sensation | det |
| 10 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 created | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past · perfect · passive | no ambassador | ever | 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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