The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 107
'Oh, sire! the Princess Bella-Flor--' answered the man, and then stopped as if afraid.
Who acts: sire · What happens: answer, stop · To what, where: man
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 (sire), 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 sire | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 sire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bella | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bella | compound |
| 8 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flor | punct |
| 10 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bella | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bella | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bella | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stopped | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stopped | advmod |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | conj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 afraid | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 afraid | mark |
| 22 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stopped | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | sire | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | sire not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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