The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 21

'How slow you are kneading that cake,' cried the other old woman at last.

Who acts: you · What happens: knead, cry · To what, where: cake, other old woman, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 kneading	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 slow	advmod
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kneading	amod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kneading	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kneading	aux
6	kneading	knead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cake	det
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kneading	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kneading	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 kneading	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knead	present · progressive	you	that cake					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent cake=Material
2	cry speech: express	past		the other old woman		last			tree rules

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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