The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 35
Kirsten was wild with joy to think of the money the cow would bring them.
Who acts: Kirsten, cow · What happens: be, think, bring · To what, where: Hans
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kirsten, cow), 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 | Kirsten | Kirsten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wild | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wild | cop |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wild | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wild | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cow | det |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 money | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kirsten | with joy; wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Kirsten not said here | of the money | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring | would | the cow | Hans = han | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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