The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 88

'Why, here is a ring!' she cried, 'where could it have come from?'

Who acts: ring, princess · What happens: be, cry, come

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 (ring, princess), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 here	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 come	advmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 here	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	18 come	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a ring	here property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	princess		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	could · perfect	ring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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