The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 75
Kirsten, of course, was delighted at this new piece of good fortune, and insisted that the new house should be built and land bought.
Who acts: Kirsten, land · What happens: be, insist, build, buy · To what, where: new piece, new house
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, land), 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 | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 course | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kirsten | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kirsten | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 piece | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 piece | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | amod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fortune | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fortune | amod |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 insisted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 insisted | cc |
| 17 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 built | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 built | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 built | aux:pass |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 insisted | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bought | cc |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bought | nsubj |
| 27 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 built | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kirsten | this new piece of good fortune | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | Kirsten not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | build | should · passive | the new house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | buy | participle | land | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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