The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 2
'Oh, lead me to them, lead me to them!' he exclaimed.
Who acts: he · What happens: lead, exclaim · To what, where: me, them · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | _ | 4 lead | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 lead | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lead | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lead | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lead | punct |
| 9 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lead | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lead | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lead | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lead | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lead | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 16 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | infinitive | me | them = they | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lead | infinitive | me | them = they | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | he | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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