The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 79
He was left there till Bella-Flor cried that he must be cooked enough.
Who acts: Bella · What happens: leave, cry, cook · To what, where: 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 (Bella), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 cried | mark |
| 6 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bella | punct |
| 8 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bella | flat |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 cooked | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cooked | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cooked | aux:pass |
| 14 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 cooked | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Jose | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Bella | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cook | must · passive | Jose | enough property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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