The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 53
Trembling with joy, he picked every scrap he could see, and placed it in his wallet.
Who acts: deal · What happens: tremble, pick, see, place · To what, where: scrap, wallet
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal), 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 | Trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 picked | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trembling | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trembling | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 picked | nsubj |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 scrap | det |
| 8 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 scrap | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 placed | cc |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 picked | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 placed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wallet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | deal not said here | with joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick | past | deal | every scrap | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | could | deal | every scrap not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scrap=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | place | past | deal not said here | scrap | deal's wallet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in wallet=Destination |
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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