The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 95
'Become a parrot!' cried she, flinging the water over him.
What happens: become, cry, fling · To what, where: parrot, water
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: 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 | _ | 2 Become | punct |
| 2 | Become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parrot | det |
| 4 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Become | xcomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Become | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Become | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flinging | punct |
| 10 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flinging | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flinging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | infinitive | a parrot | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | parrot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fling | gerund | the water | over boy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme over he=Destination |
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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