The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 81

What was her surprise when the animal said to her: 'Take off my bridle and you will save my life.'

Who acts: animal, you · What happens: be, say, take off, save · To what, where: surprise, girl, bridle, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (animal, you), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 surprise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprise	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 surprise	nmod:poss
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprise	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
13	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 Take	compound:prt
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bridle	nmod:poss
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Take	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 save	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 save	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 save	aux
20	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Take	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		girl's surprise		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the animal		girl	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	take off	infinitive		my bridle		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme
4	save	future	you	my life		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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