The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 96

'Are not eight children enough,' she cried, 'without bringing us two more?

Who acts: eight children · What happens: be, cry, bring · To what, where: eight children, two more, us

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 (eight children), 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 children	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 children	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eight	advmod
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 children	nummod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	nsubj
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 children	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 bringing	mark
14	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bringing	obj
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 more	nummod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 bringing	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		eight children		enough property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	eight children				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	gerund	eight children not said here	two more	us		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination more=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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