The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 105
'Not while the dogs are barking,' said she; 'someone might come out to see if anything was the matter.'
Who acts: dogs, moon, someone, anything · What happens: not bark, say, come out, see, be · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, moon, someone, anything), 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 | _ | 7 barking | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 barking | advmod |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 barking | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dogs | det |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 barking | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 barking | aux |
| 7 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 barking | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 barking | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | advcl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 matter | mark |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 matter | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bark | present · progressive | the dogs | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come out | might | someone | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | someone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | the matter | tree rules |
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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