The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 99
Who can guess the delight of the sister at the sight of her brother, bearing the Bird of Truth?
Who acts: sister · What happens: guess, bear, delight, sight · To what, where: delight, sight, Bird, brother
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 (sister), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 guess | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 guess | aux |
| 3 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 delight | det |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guess | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sister | det |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delight | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sight | det |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guess | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bearing | punct |
| 16 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 guess | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bird | det |
| 18 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bearing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Truth | case |
| 20 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bird | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | can | the delight of the sister | the sight of witch's brother | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent delight=Attribute at sight=Value | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | the Bird of Truth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | |||||
| 3 | delight | the sister | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sight | witch's brother | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/99/