The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 15
'But, really, we shall never find the Princess Bella-Flor if we waste our time like this!' cried Jose.
Who acts: we · What happens: not find, waste, cry · To what, where: Bella Flor, Jose · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 find | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cried | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Flor | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Flor | nsubj |
| 12 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Flor | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Flor | punct |
| 14 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 waste | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 waste | nsubj |
| 17 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | ccomp |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 time | nmod:poss |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waste | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 this | case |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 waste | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | shall | we | the Bella Flor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent flor=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | waste a condition, not said to happen | present | we | time | like this | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Jose | tree rules |
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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