The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 83
'Quick! quick!' cried Ian to the men who held the rope. '
Who acts: men · What happens: cry, hold · To what, where: men, rope
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 quick | punct |
| 2 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quick | amod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Quick | punct |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | advcl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | flat |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 men | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | hold | past | the men | the rope | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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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