The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 101
'Be quick then,' answered Gudu, climbing into a tree.
What happens: be, answer, climb · To what, where: Gudu, tree
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 quick | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 climbing | punct |
| 10 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | then | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Gudu | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gudu=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
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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