The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 55

'Oh! there is father at last,' cried the boy; but the mother bade him cease from idle talking.

Who acts: last · What happens: be, cry, cease · To what, where: boy, mother bade, idle talking

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 (last), 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	_	8 last	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 is	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 last	cop
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 last	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 last	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cease	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 cease	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bade	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bade	compound
18	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cease	obl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	obj
20	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 talking	case
22	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 talking	amod
23	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cease	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				last property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	last	the boy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
3	cease	present	last not said here	the mother bade	idle talking		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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