The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 26
But when it happened for the third time the old women suspected some trick, and one of them exclaimed:
Who acts: it, old women, one · What happens: happen, suspect, exclaim · To what, where: trick
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 (it, old women, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 exclaimed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happened | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 exclaimed | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 women | amod |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suspected | nsubj |
| 12 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 trick | det |
| 14 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suspected | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 exclaimed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 exclaimed | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suspect | past | the old women | some trick | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trick=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | one of fields | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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