The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 69
'It was the Stalo,' replied she, her voice trembling; 'Stalo the man-eater!
Who acts: dog, Stalo · What happens: be, reply, trembling · To what, where: Stalo · 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 (dog, Stalo), 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 | _ | 5 Stalo | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Stalo | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Stalo | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Stalo | det |
| 5 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stalo | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stalo | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trembling | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembling | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trembling | nmod:poss |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembling | compound |
| 13 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Stalo | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Stalo | punct |
| 16 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eater | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eater | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 20 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Stalo | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Stalo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dog | the Stalo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Stalo | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | trembling | Stalo | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/69/