The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 102
'That will do nicely,' thought the scoundrel, rubbing his hands. '
Who acts: That · What happens: do, think, rub · To what, where: scoundrel, hands
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 scoundrel | det |
| 10 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rubbing | punct |
| 12 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rubbing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | That | nicely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | That not said here | the scoundrel | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot scoundrel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rub | gerund | That not said here | king's hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=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.
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