The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 100
The wife said no more; and in truth her heart yearned over the little creatures.
Who acts: wife, heart · What happens: say, yearn · To what, where: more, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 yearned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 yearned | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 truth | case |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yearned | obl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yearned | nsubj |
| 12 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 creatures | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creatures | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creatures | amod |
| 16 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 yearned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wife | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 2 | yearn | past | wife's heart | truth | over the little creatures | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |
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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