The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 24
'That was indeed good fortune!' cried they.
Who acts: That, good fortune · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: good fortune
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, good fortune), 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 fortune | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fortune | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fortune | cop |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 fortune | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortune | amod |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 fortune | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fortune | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | good fortune | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | good fortune | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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