The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 28
'And what is that?' cried all the swallows at once. '
Who acts: that · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: swallows
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), 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 | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 swallows | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swallows | det |
| 11 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 cried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | all swallows | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Topic |
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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