The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 107
There you are,' cried the Stalo, appearing on the opposite bank; 'for a moment I really thought I had lost you.'
Who acts: I · What happens: cry, appear, think, lose · To what, where: Stalo, opposite bank, moment, I
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 are | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Stalo | det |
| 8 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 appearing | punct |
| 10 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bank | det |
| 13 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bank | amod |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appearing | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 moment | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lost | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 thought | advmod |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 moment | acl:relcl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 lost | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 lost | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Stalo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalo=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appear | gerund | the opposite bank | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I | a moment not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot moment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | present · perfect · passive | I | moment | 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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