The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 39
'Is the prince dead?' faltered Muffette, growing white and cold.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, falter, grow · To what, where: Muffette
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 (prince), 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 dead | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faltered | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 8 | faltered | falter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 faltered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 growing | punct |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 faltered | advcl |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 growing | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cold | cc |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 white | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 faltered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the prince | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | falter | past | Muffette | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location muffette=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/39/