The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 56

'But, mother, it is true; father is coming!' repeated the child.

Who acts: talking, father, mother · What happens: be, come, repeat · To what, where: child

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 (talking, father, mother), 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	_	15 repeated	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 repeated	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	parataxis
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 coming	aux
12	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 true	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	talking		true property	tree rules
2	come	present · progressive	father			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	repeat	past	mother	the child		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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