The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 9
'But it will take so long,' objected Jose, 'and we may miss the princess.'
Who acts: it, we · What happens: take, object, miss · To what, where: objected Jose, 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 (it, 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 take | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 objected | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 objected | punct |
| 10 | objected | object | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Jose | amod |
| 11 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 miss | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 miss | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 miss | aux |
| 17 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 miss | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | it | objected Jose | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument jose=Destination | |||
| 2 | object speech: other | participle | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | miss | may | we | the princess | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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