The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 109
And they told each other in whispers that they could not stay there any longer, but must go into the world and seek their fortunes.
Who acts: children · What happens: tell, not stay, go, seek · To what, where: each, whispers, world, fortunes · 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 (children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 told | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 whispers | case |
| 7 | whispers | whisper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stay | advmod |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stay | advmod |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 stay | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seek | cc |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 seek | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | children = child | each | whispers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not stay | could | children = child | there | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | must | the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | children's fortunes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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