The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 26
'Oh, I have let fall my bran!' cried she; 'please get down and pick it up for me.'
Who acts: I · What happens: let, fall, cry, get down, pick up · To what, where: I, bran, princess
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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bran | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 16 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 17 get | discourse |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pick | cc |
| 20 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pick | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 pick | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pick | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | I not said here | my bran | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bran=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get down | infinitive | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | pick up | infinitive | bran | for me | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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