The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 80
Then he kissed the handkerchief twice or thrice, and burst into tears, and it was some minutes before he could speak.
Who acts: king, handkerchief · What happens: kiss, burst, be, speak · To what, where: handkerchief, tears, minutes · 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 (king, handkerchief), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissed | obj |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 thrice | cc |
| 8 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 twice | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burst | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 burst | cc |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burst | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 minutes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 minutes | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 minutes | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 minutes | cop |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 minutes | det |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burst | obl |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 speak | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 speak | aux |
| 23 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 minutes | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | king | the handkerchief | then | twice property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | burst | past | king not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | handkerchief | some minutes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | could | king | some minutes not said here | 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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