The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 64

'How am I to get that handkerchief?' cried he; 'why I should need Jacob's ladder!'

Who acts: I, Jose · What happens: get, cry, need · To what, where: handkerchief, ladder · 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 (I, Jose), 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 get	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 handkerchief	det
8	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 need	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 need	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 need	aux
18	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	ccomp
19	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ladder	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Jacob	case
21	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 need	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	present	I	that handkerchief	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handkerchief=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	Jose		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	need	should	I	Jacob's ladder	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ladder=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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